Jojomoyes Quotes & Sayings

Yet I liked him too much ... way too much, and I ripped him out of my heart so it wouldn't get to hurt me more than it did. — Sylvia Plath

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me. — Nicola Yoon

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. — Charles R. Swindoll

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech. — Vance Havner

We attach to most of our chapels a cultural hall so that our youth may have a place to dance, to perform their talents in musicals and other uplifting entertainment, and we hope our youth leaders as trustees of the building will see to it that only wholesome, uplifting activities are performed in this building. Should you have any reservations whether or not an activity, a style of dancing or tempo of music is in accord with Church standards, may I suggest this guide: Does it uplift and inspire one to higher ideals? Does it develop wholesome relationships between young men and women, or appeal to and arouse their baser instincts? Will it cause one to be a better Latter-day Saint and lead one closer to the Savior? Avoid all activities and dances which bring the world's demoralizing standards into this sacred meeting place. — Ezra Taft Benson

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph. — Joseph Brodsky

You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they're not living, breathing people any more.
It's not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It's just something you learn to accommodate.
Like adapting around a hole. I don't know. It's like you become ... a doughnut instead of a bun — Jojo Moyes

You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path. — Jojo Moyes

Messages that fail to fascinate will become irrelevant. — Sally Hogshead

You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged not by your potential but rather by your history — Lois P Frankel

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious — Henry Rollins

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet. — Terence Young

Not all people with scars are evil. — Ally Carter

The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The truth is that American universities are among the safest and most coddled environments ever devised by man. The idea that one should attend college to be protected from ideas one might find controversial or offensive could only occur to someone who had jettisoned any hope of acquiring an education. — Roger Kimball

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence. — Brian Tracy

Just for carrying on, really. Sometimes, my darling girl, that's heroic in itself. — Jojo Moyes