I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
JOJO MOYESI thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
JOJO MOYESThat old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
JOJO MOYESI 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?
JOJO MOYESYou, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
JOJO MOYESAll that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
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 MOYESI held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
JOJO MOYESYou all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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 MOYESNobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
JOJO MOYES“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
JOJO MOYESSometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
JOJO MOYESThat evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
JOJO MOYESI had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
JOJO MOYESYou decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
JOJO MOYES