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.
JOJO MOYESThere 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?
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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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 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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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.
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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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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 held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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