There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
JOJO MOYESYou’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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 wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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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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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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There was nothing left for me to do. 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 chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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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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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 held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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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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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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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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Because 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.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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