If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
JOJO MOYESTry to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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 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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“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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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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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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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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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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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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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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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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 thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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