Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
JOJO MOYESYou’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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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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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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 held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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