I 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 MOYES“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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.
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“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.”
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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 thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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