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.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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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if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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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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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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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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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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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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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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