My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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