And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
JOJO MOYESAnd it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
JOJO MOYES“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYESSome 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.
JOJO MOYESI wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
JOJO MOYESKnow that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
JOJO MOYESShe went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
JOJO MOYESBelieve me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
JOJO MOYESThis life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
JOJO MOYES“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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.
JOJO MOYESSometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
JOJO MOYESDo 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?
JOJO MOYESBut just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
JOJO MOYESEverything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
JOJO MOYESIs that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
JOJO MOYES