That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
JOJO MOYESIf I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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