“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYESAnd then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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 thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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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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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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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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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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