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?
JOJO MOYESCheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing 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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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