But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
JOJO MOYESEverything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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 can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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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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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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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 is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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