… 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 MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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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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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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.
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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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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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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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