“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?
JOJO MOYESI 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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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 thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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