You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYESIt 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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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 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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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