I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
JOJO MOYESBut 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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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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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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