Jo Watson > Quotes

“I'm just saying that your fears are stopping you from having the things in life that you want and deserve.”
― Jo Watson, Big Boned

“Here, take these." I held my hands open as she dropped something into my palms; succulent leaves. "Lay them on some soil. Give them a little bit of water in a spray bottle, not that much, and watch them grow." She closed my hand around the leaves. "We start small. A fine mist of water, a few good words to ourself, and we keep it up everyday. And one day, we want to believe wont believe what we've grown into.”
― Jo Watson, Big Boned

“Lori, you're fears and insecurities and what you think about yourself, those things are all sabotaging you, and if you don't learn to silence those voices, you're never going to have the things in life that you deserve.”
― Jo Watson, Big Boned

“You have such a powerful voice, Lori." She said but I shook my head. This couldn't be further from reality. "You do, you just haven't realized it yet.”
― Jo Watson, Big Boned

“There are moments in a person’s life that change everything. Shake things up. Steer you in a different direction and push you onto another course, toward different people, places, and things. These moments don’t come around often, but when they do, they rip through the very fabric of your world.”
― Jo Watson, Burning Moon

“I feel awake when I’m with you, Poppy. You woke me up when I didn’t even know I was sleeping.”
― Jo Watson, Love You, Love You Not

“He wanted more with me. More meant trust. More meant letting go of control. More meant all the things that terrified me.”
― Jo Watson, What Happens On Vacation

“beneath those clothes and this had only ignited a full-blown war in my head. My primitive reptilian brain was waging a fierce war against my logical self, fighting for control.”
― Jo Watson, Burning Moon

“Suddenly a cheesy Justin Bieber song filled the room, something about saying sorry and now he was yodeling about her body, or something. His voice echoed around the room, I cringed and then I skipped to the next song.”
― Jo Watson, Love to Hate You

“But sometimes you have to look at the full picture. Not everything is black and white, Sera. You of all people should know that. Life is full of grey patches.”
― Jo Watson, Love to Hate You

“Life is full of things we don't expect- that's how it works. It's messy, it's unpredictable, it twists and turns in directions that we can't control and that is something you need to learn.”
― Jo Watson, What Happens On Vacation

“Shit,” I whispered to myself. This man was harder to resist than chocolate. And that was saying something.”
― Jo Watson, Love to Hate You

“when they touch something significant? The”
― Jo Watson, Love to Hate You

“Life is precious, and magical, and wondeful. It is a gift, the best gift that we will ever be given, and we have to enjoy it, because it can be taken away from us like this...' She clicked her fingers together.”
― Jo Watson, What Happens On Vacation

“We all have our struggles... And we should all be there for each other in any way we can. Life is hard and sometimes we just need a helping hand.”
― Jo Watson, Love You, Love You Not

“Let’s do it!” I turned to Alex, clutching the doll under my arm. Alex’s eyes widened as he looked at it in shock. “Floatation device,” I said. I kicked my shoes off and indicated for Alex to do the same. Then I rushed them over to Julian and put them on the bar. “We’ll get them from you at the hotel,” I said with utter determination, and a blow-up sex doll under my arm”
― Jo Watson, The Great Ex-Scape

“We have the soothing sounds of Kenny G,”
― Jo Watson, Love to Hate You

“Sometimes we have to embrace the grey, because that's often where we find the greatest joy. That's where the life-changing miracles reside.”
― Jo Watson, What Happens On Vacation

“I removed all the blue ones, since they seem detrimental to your health.”
― Jo Watson, Love to Hate You

“Do nothing and relax. Contemplate the sea and sunshine and contemplate contemplating, but without expending too much energy on contemplating your abilities to contemplate.”
― Jo Watson, Finding You

“There's something about losinf a parent when you're an adult that no one tells you about. It reduces you to feeling like a small child all over again. You think of that person as the man who carried you on your shoulders when your little legs were too tired to walk or who held the seat of your bike as you tried to pedal for the first time. And you crave those moments more than anything and you wish you could go back and relive them all. Because when they were happening you didn't know how precious they would be one day.”
― Jo Watson, What Happens On Vacation

“They contributed one third of the fee, meaning you had to fork out the other third.”
― Jo Watson, Love to Hate You

“I didn't actually know what I was about to say to him. Because I still didn't have the words for what I was thinking and feeling.”
― Jo Watson, What Happens On Vacation