You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYESKnowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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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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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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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“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 felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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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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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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