Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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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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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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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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 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.
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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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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 see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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