But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
JOJO MOYESI hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
-
-
A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
JOJO MOYES -
I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
JOJO MOYES -
You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
JOJO MOYES -
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
JOJO MOYES -
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYES -
If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
JOJO MOYES