Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
JOJO MOYESWe are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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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 all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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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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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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