Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYESThe 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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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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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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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