And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
JOJO MOYESShe does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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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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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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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 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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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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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