… 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 MOYESShe does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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Just live well. Just live
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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