Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
JOJO MOYESNobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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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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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 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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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.
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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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