I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
JOJO MOYESI held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
JOJO MOYESI’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.
JOJO MOYESYou’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
JOJO MOYESThat old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
JOJO MOYESCheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
JOJO MOYESSometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
JOJO MOYESKnowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
JOJO MOYESBelieve 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 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.
JOJO MOYESI thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
JOJO MOYESIt 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 MOYESAstonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYESYou know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
JOJO MOYESI worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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