Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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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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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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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