I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
JOJO MOYESI worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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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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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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“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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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