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.
JOJO MOYESHe 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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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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’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 chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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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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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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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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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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