if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
JOJO MOYESIf you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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 frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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 I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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 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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I 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.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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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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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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