Jojo Moyes Professions : Novelist Born : 1969 Browse All Authors Top 100 quotes by Jojo Moyes If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes emotional keys writing You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. Jojo Moyes duty You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. 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. Jojo Moyes office home feelings 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. Jojo Moyes pieces hurt way 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. Jojo Moyes comfort doe world Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen. Jojo Moyes results choices mistake Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE. Jojo Moyes push-yourself settling just-live 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. Jojo Moyes rocks mother father And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice. Jojo Moyes choices simple There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Jojo Moyes buried hunger people 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. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off. Jojo Moyes loss years moving There is a whole lot more to life than winning. Jojo Moyes more-to-life whole winning But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart. Jojo Moyes vacuums doe heart All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world. Jojo Moyes you-make-me-happy world thinking 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 skins found sun When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff. Jojo Moyes listening stuff life The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved. Jojo Moyes rocks mother children Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith. Jojo Moyes obstacles matter feet We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand. Jojo Moyes cycles patterns purpose ...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. Jojo Moyes stories two people Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
