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.
JOJO MOYESMuch to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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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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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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