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.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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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Believe 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.
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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I 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.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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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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Just 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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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