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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

Jojo Moyes

“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.
JOJO MOYES

Concert Dres Few Girl Just Minute Red Think Want
“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYES

Actually Anymore Listen Nobody War
Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
JOJO MOYES

Hand Heart Hold Hope Know
And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
JOJO MOYES

Able Annexe Around Crazy Day Dress Every Look Naked Wandering
So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
JOJO MOYES

Bad Cloth Complete Day First Heart Joke People Ridiculous Score Walk
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.
JOJO MOYES

Able Allow Clarity Exquisite Hour Memory Minute Moment Recall
You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
JOJO MOYES

Actually Duty Fully Get Life Live One Only Possible
… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
JOJO MOYES

Confidence Dress Mentally Need Out Physical Wear Well
I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
JOJO MOYES

Almost Between End Invisible Mile Shrink Thread
Just live well. Just live
JOJO MOYES

Just Live Well
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.
JOJO MOYES

Bloke Down Leg Make Pride Pust Ridiculous Setting Settle Some Strip Sure Yourself
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
JOJO MOYES

Composer Predict Realize Thing Unlock
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYES

Actual Help Helped Only Someone Want
Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYES

Astonishingly Dress Girl Just Men Please
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.
JOJO MOYES

Brightness Content Energy Life Potential See Talent
…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

Each Found Like Met Much Other People Story Told Understand

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

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