I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
JOJO MOYESSometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
-
-
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
JOJO MOYES -
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYES -
How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYES -
I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
JOJO MOYES -
I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
JOJO MOYES -
“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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.
JOJO MOYES -
… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
JOJO MOYES -
“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
JOJO MOYES -
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
JOJO MOYES