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.
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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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You 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.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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