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.
JOJO MOYESIf 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
-
-
Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
JOJO MOYES -
There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYES -
Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
JOJO MOYES -
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-
JOJO MOYES -
I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
JOJO MOYES -
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….
JOJO MOYES -
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.
JOJO MOYES -
Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
JOJO MOYES -
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYES -
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
JOJO MOYES -
How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
JOJO MOYES