The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
JOJO MOYESDo you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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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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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.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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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 can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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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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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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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.
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Just live well. Just live
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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.
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