I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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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 realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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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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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