You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYESThere are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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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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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 I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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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.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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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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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 could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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