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.
JOJO MOYESHow could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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 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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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Just live well. Just live
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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 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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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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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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 know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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 thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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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