…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.
JOJO MOYES“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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 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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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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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