We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand. Jojo Moyes More Quotes by Jojo Moyes More Quotes From Jojo Moyes Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me. Jojo Moyes atoms airports opposites 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 suicidal drunk son 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. Jojo Moyes cows wife way If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. 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. Jojo Moyes horse hate fun 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. Jojo Moyes girl dresses men You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped. Jojo Moyes want helping How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death? Jojo Moyes live-each-day each-day knowing I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to. Jojo Moyes regret done memories The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people. Jojo Moyes new-life people ideas She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy. Jojo Moyes conspiracy kind laughing ... 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 Moyes wells dresses needs 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. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite. Jojo Moyes hangover drunk morning All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas. Jojo Moyes juggling people ideas I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I 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. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again. Jojo Moyes want might world 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. Jojo Moyes inability clothes heart Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward. Jojo Moyes writing trying moving I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment. Jojo Moyes that-moment moments world 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. Jojo Moyes wife mouths believe Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time. Jojo Moyes generations successful men 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 guarantees wise writing
