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.
JOJO MOYESif 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.
JOJO MOYESAll that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
JOJO MOYESTry to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
JOJO MOYESYou 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.
JOJO MOYESYou have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYESThere is a whole lot more to life than winning.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
JOJO MOYES“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.
JOJO MOYESSit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
JOJO MOYESBecause 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.
JOJO MOYES“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYESI 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
JOJO MOYESI 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.
JOJO MOYESBelieve me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
JOJO MOYESThe 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,
JOJO MOYES…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.
JOJO MOYES