Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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, 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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“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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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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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