Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYESYou 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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 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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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. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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…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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“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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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