I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
JOJO MOYESSomewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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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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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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I 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.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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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.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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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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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 worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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.
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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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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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You 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.
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