But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
JOJO MOYESBut don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
JOJO MOYESSometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
JOJO MOYESReal 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.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
JOJO MOYESYou make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
JOJO MOYESif you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
JOJO MOYESIt’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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 MOYESDo you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
JOJO MOYESTry to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
JOJO MOYESJust 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.
JOJO MOYESPush yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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 MOYESYou have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYES“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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.
JOJO MOYESMuch to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
JOJO MOYES