You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
JOJO MOYESI had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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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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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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“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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