Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
JOJO MOYESWhen you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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 this isn’t a conventional love story.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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 just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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