I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
JOJO MOYESTry to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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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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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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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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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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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.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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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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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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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 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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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