Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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 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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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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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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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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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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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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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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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