Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYESI wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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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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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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It 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.
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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