I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
JOJO MOYESMost days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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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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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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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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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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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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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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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