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.
JOJO MOYESThat evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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’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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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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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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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 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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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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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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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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