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.
JOJO MOYESBut just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with 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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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 know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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 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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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 chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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