And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
JOJO MOYESBecause even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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