You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYESI 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-
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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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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I 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
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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