There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
JOJO MOYESSome 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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 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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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