You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
JOJO MOYESWhen you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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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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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 told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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I 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.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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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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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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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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I 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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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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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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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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“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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You 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.
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