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?
JOJO MOYESEverything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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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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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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 it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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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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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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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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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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