You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
JOJO MOYESI 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 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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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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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“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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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She 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.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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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.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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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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