I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
JOJO MOYESCheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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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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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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“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.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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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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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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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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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 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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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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