Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
JOJO MOYESSometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
JOJO MOYESAnd then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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 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.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
JOJO MOYESI know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
JOJO MOYESNobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
JOJO MOYESYou have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYESThis 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.
JOJO MOYESThe most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
JOJO MOYESYou make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
JOJO MOYESI felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
JOJO MOYESI held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
JOJO MOYESI could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
JOJO MOYESI thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
JOJO MOYES