That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
JOJO MOYESSit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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if 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.
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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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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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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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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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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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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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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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 could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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 just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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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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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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