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.
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.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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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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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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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 frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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