I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
JOJO MOYESHow is it possible to exist with so much pain?
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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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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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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