If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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 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.
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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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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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… 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.
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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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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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