And 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 MOYESI see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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if 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.
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You 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.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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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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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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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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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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