Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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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.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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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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… 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.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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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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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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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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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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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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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