There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
JOJO MOYESI thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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 had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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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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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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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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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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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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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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