Ngale Jojo Quotes

I didn't know my dad in person and I never got to say goodbye to him at his funeral and I thought it would be nice to say a few words now that I sort of feel I know him a bit better.' She gave a nervous smile, and pushed a strand of hair from her face.

'So. Will … Dad. When I first found out you were my real father, I'll be honest, I was a bit freaked out. I'd hoped my real dad was going to be this wise, handsome man, who would want to teach me stuff and protect me and take me on trips to show me amazing places that he loved. And what I actually got was an angry man in a wheelchair who just, you know, killed himself. But because of Lou, and your family, over the last few months I've come to understand you a bit better.

'I'll always be sad and maybe even a bit angry that I never got to meet you, but now I want to say thank you too. ". You gave me a lot, without knowing it. I think I'm like you in good ways – and probably a few not-so-good ways. You gave me blue eyes and my hair colour and the fact that I think Marmite is revolting and the ability to do black ski runs and … Well, apparently you also gave me a certain amount of moodiness – that's other people's opinion, by the way. Not mine.'

'But mostly you gave me a family I didn't know I had. And that's cool. Because, to be honest, it wasn't going that well before they all turned up.' Her smile wavered.

' So, um, Will … Dad, I'm not going to go on and on because speeches are bo ~ Jojo Moyes

I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window. ~ Jojo Moyes

Will and I had been to each other, the way I felt that no person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again ~ Jojo Moyes

I tried - not because I really had an appetite for genetics - but because I couldn't bear the thought that Will would go on and on at me if I didn't. He was like that now. He was actually a bit of a bully. And, really annoyingly, he would quiz me on how much I had read of something, just to make sure I really had. ~ Jojo Moyes

You have to decide to let yourself be happy. ~ Jojo Moyes

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

Before I met your father I thought that love and peace would change the whole world, but looking into your eyes, I knew all I had to do was let you be whoever it was that you wanted to be, and to love you, and that would be the best and closest thing I could ever do to change the world for the better.
"You are going to be brilliant," I told you. "You are going to be clever, and funny. Brave and strong. You're going to be a feminist, and a peace campaigner and a dancer. And one day you are going to be a mother yourself. You are going to fall in love and have adventures and do things I can't even imagine. You, little Claire Armstrong, you are going to be the most wonderful woman, and you are going to have the most amazing life: a life that no one will ever forget. ~ Jojo Moyes

I ache, I rattle with supplements, and my grandchildren cannot believe I have ever been anything but prehistoric. ~ Jojo Moyes

Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry. ~ Jojo Moyes

I liked the exoticism his travels gave him, the unknownness. He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it was weirdly seductive. ~ Jojo Moyes

What we learn through sharing our memories and our sadness's and our little victories with each other is that it's okay to feel sad. Or lost. Or angry. It's okay to feel a whole host of things that other people might not understand, and often for a long time. Everyone has his or her own journey. We don't judge. ~ Jojo Moyes

grip my arm. I willed the old ~ Jojo Moyes

Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations. ~ Jojo Moyes

I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did. ~ Jojo

He grimaced. 'Jesus, for a girl who made tea for a living you make a terrible cup.'

'You're just used to lesbian tea,' I said. 'All that lapsang souchong herbal stuff.'

'Lesbian tea!' He almost choked. 'Well, it's better than this stair varnish. Christ. You could stand a spoon up in that. ~ Jojo Moyes

Loved reading Me Before You and The Girl You Left Behind. Both stories kept me very involved with sometimes twists and turns that I did not expect! ~ Jojo Moyes

But ... sometimes, Louisa, moving on means we do have to protect ourselves. ~ Jojo Moyes

The young are right to be fearless, she reminded herself. Remember yourself at that age. ~ Jojo Moyes

Heartbreak was a luxury too costly for the single parent. ~ Jojo Moyes

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more. ~ Dawn Powell

It was as if I had lost a layer of skin - I woke up laughing, or crying. ~ Jojo Moyes

Three days later, just as I set off for work, the postman handed me a letter. I opened it on the bus, thinking it might be an early birthday card from some distant cousin. It read, in computer- ized text:
Dear Clark,
This is to show you that I am not an entirely selfish arse. And I do appreciate your efforts.
Thank you.
Will
I laughed so hard the bus driver asked me if my lottery numbers had come up. ~ Jojo Moyes

Remember, good things happen. ~ Jojo Moyes

She abhorred a conversational vacuum. ~ Jojo Moyes

Not everything is black and white. Much as we would like it to be. ~ Jojo Moyes

Its not a matter of giving you a chance. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me. I don't want you to be tied to me, to my hospital appointments, to the restrictions on my life. I don't want you to miss out on the things someone else could give you. ~ Jojo Moyes

He had this way of talking where you could never quite be sure that he wasn't mocking you. ~ Jojo Moyes

Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better. ~ Jojo Moyes

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

You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?" The assistant shrugs. "Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris. ~ Jojo Moyes

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on. ~ Jojo Moyes

I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine. ~ Jojo Moyes

I'm not letting go of you" - Sam ~ Jojo Moyes

Jesus Christ," said my father. "Can you imagine? If it wasn't punishment enough ending up in a ruddy wheelchair, then you get our Lou turning up to keep you company."
"Bernard!" my mother scolded.
Behind me, Granddad was laughing into his mug of tea. ~ Jojo Moyes

Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones - old enough to want to do stuff without having any of the common sense. ~ Jojo Moyes

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men. ~ Jojo Moyes

It's quite hard to stay calm and understanding when you see the same faces, the same mistakes made again and again. ~ Jojo Moyes

There's no such thing as a life free of complications, Rory. We all end up making compromises in the end. ~ Jojo Moyes

the most important thing you have with another human being is trust. ~ Jojo Moyes