I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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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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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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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.
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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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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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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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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