Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
JOJO MOYESThey began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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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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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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 realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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