Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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 know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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 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.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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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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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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I 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
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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 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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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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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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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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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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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