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.
JOJO MOYESThe thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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…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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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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… 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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“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 whole lot more to life than winning.
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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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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