But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
JOJO MOYESI 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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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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 that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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