I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
JOJO MOYESBelieve 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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 you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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