…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 MOYESDo 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?
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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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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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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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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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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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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