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.
JOJO MOYESI 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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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I 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.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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