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 MOYESif 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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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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, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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 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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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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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“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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Just live well. Just live
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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