If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYESThere is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Just live well. Just live
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I 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.
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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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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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 thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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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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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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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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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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“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.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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