Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
JOJO MOYESI chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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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.
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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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