Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyesis an English journalist and, since 2002, a romance novelist. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been translated into eleven different languages...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 August 1969
duty
You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
heart doe vacuums
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
home office feelings
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.
moving loss years
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.
mistake choices results
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.
settling push-yourself just-live
Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
winning more-to-life whole
There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
life listening stuff
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
purpose patterns cycles
We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.
suicidal son drunk
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—
just-live live-well wells
Just live well. Just live
opposites airports atoms
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.
simple choices
And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
ideas people new-life
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.