Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
JOJO MOYESSome 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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 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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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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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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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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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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