Jojo Moyes Quotes

Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.

Truth allows no choice.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

The line cannot be too strongly drawn.

When to elect there is but one, 'Tis Hobson's Choice; take that or none.

I'm a rather decisive type.

When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.

I'm not a confused person in real life. I'm very clear.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

It's never the plan to be tentative.

It was never a question of, 'Do I get to go and direct?' It just made sense.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

I know what I want, and where to go.

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

Don't wavier. Make a decision. Do it now.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.