Just live well. Just live
JOJO MOYES“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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