You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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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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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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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 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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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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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