… 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 MOYESDo 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?
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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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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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’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.
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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.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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And 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.
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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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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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