I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
JOJO MOYESYou have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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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 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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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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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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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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