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.
JOJO MOYESYou make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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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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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.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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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 just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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