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.
JOJO MOYESAstonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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“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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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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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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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