I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
JOJO MOYESJust hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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Just live well. Just live
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“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.”
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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.
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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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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