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
sister fighting like-you
Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
love-you thinking littles
I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
dresses bloody
Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
two focus nerves
I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
successful men way
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.
want helping
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
said
I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
pain good-life grief
I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
heart hands my-heart
Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
pain
How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
dresses needs wells
... 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.
pride luxury knowing
Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
world moments that-moment
I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
eye voice enough
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?