You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
JOJO MOYESI could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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 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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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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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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 had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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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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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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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