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?
JOJO MOYESThere is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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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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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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’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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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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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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