“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
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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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.
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Believe 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.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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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“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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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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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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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