How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
JOJO MOYESYou all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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