Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
JOJO MOYESThe only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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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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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 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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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Some 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.
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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.
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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 just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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