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 MOYESIf 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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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.
JOJO MOYESMy nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
JOJO MOYESReal 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.
JOJO MOYESIs that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
JOJO MOYESSo this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
JOJO MOYESif 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 MOYESShe went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
JOJO MOYES“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
JOJO MOYESThere 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 MOYESAstonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYESI could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
JOJO MOYESBelieve me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
JOJO MOYESI 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 MOYESHow is it possible to exist with so much pain?
JOJO MOYES