Silver Bay Quotes

“How is it possible to exist with so much pain?”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“Sometimes, I said, a lie is the way of least pain for everyone.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“Perhaps we all harbor a perverse need to get close to things that might destroy us.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“I tell him I don’t see it that way. Look out at the sea for long enough, at its moods and frenzies, at its beauties and terrors, and you’ll have all the stories you need— of love and danger, and about what life lands in your nets. And the fact that sometimes it’s not your hand on the tiller, and you can do no more than trust that it’ll all work out okay.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“If she knows you didn;t love her enough to stay here for her, it will finish her off.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“There is nothing redemptive about the loss of a child, no lessons of value it can teach you. It is too big, too overwhelming, too black to articulate. It is a bleak, overwhelming physical pain, shocking in its intensity, and every time you think you might have moved forward an inch it swells back, like a tidal wave, to drown you again.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“Sometimes i still think about when we used to fight and I feel really bad because if I'd known what was going to happen to her, I would have tried to be nice to her every day. I say 'try' because it's quite hard to be nice to someone every day. Even my mum gets on my nerves sometimes but I'm always nice to her because I know she's still sad, and because I'm all she has left.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“Um silêncio aturdido é diferente de qualquer outro, percebi nesse momento. Estende-se, ganhando peso, e depois implode sob o peso das perguntas por fazer.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“We had not mentioned love, but my every nerve ending throbbed with it, and I carried it in a cloud around me, like sea mist.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“She was beautiful. As always she looked like she'd meant to head for somewhere else but at the last minute she'd decided to stop by you, as a favor, you understand.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“...all I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“Perhaps we all harbor a perverse need to get close to the things that might destroy us.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay

“She”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay: 'Surprising and genuinely moving' - The Times

“sitting there with a face like a smacked arse, the dinner so charred you could have drawn pictures with it.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay: 'Surprising and genuinely moving' - The Times

“By then we all believed that happiness should be treasured if good fortune happened to blow it briefly your way.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay: 'Surprising and genuinely moving' - The Times

“A lucky few know their purpose in life from an early age. They recognise in themselves a vocation, whether it be religion, art, storytelling or the spearing of sacred cows.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay: 'Surprising and genuinely moving' - The Times

“She said it was like fishing: you had to learn to be quiet and patient to reel in what you wanted.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay: 'Surprising and genuinely moving' - The Times

“Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.”
― Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay