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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.

Jojo Moyes

You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
JOJO MOYES

Actually Duty Fully Get Life Live One Only Possible
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.
JOJO MOYES

Against Back Become Breath Eys Kiss Mingled Salt Tear Try
Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
JOJO MOYES

Get Morning People Pretty Make Something Up Want
Just live well. Just live
JOJO MOYES

Just Live Well
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.
JOJO MOYES

Absorb Imprintleft Love Man Myself Osmosis Speak Try
I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
JOJO MOYES

Afraid Destroy Life Live Realize Without
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.
JOJO MOYES

Consequence Define Great Mistake One Other Result Some Thing
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
JOJO MOYES

Composer Predict Realize Thing Unlock
Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
JOJO MOYES

Alter Anniversary Awkward Carry Day Everyone Invisible Lost Most Move Subtily
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.
JOJO MOYES

Guarantee Once Perilous Read Someone Spirit Told Walkways Wise Worse Writing Written
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
JOJO MOYES

Happen Happy Make Myself Trained Want Work
We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
JOJO MOYES

All God Great Part Pattern Purpose Some Understand
I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
JOJO MOYES

Actual Again Ended Good Happen Nothing World
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYES

Cry Emotional Fail Feel Gut Key Write
The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
JOJO MOYES

Children Know Letting Okay Only People Really Rock Throw Whole
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYES

Actual Help Helped Only Someone Want
I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
JOJO MOYES

Angry Better Cause Conscious Day Good Grief Hope Know Less One Pain Upset
How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
JOJO MOYES

Exist Heart Hold Much Pain Possibly
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.
JOJO MOYES

Ahead Decide Else Everyone Me Though
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.
JOJO MOYES

Able Allow Clarity Exquisite Hour Memory Minute Moment Recall
And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
JOJO MOYES

Able Annexe Around Crazy Day Dress Every Look Naked Wandering
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 MOYES

Blame Cow Experiment Food Hundred Incinerate Know Still Way Wife
That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
JOJO MOYES

Bite Hangover Just Old Out Toy Work
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
JOJO MOYES

Deep Delicious Found Inhale Myself Seep Silently Skin Smell Something Sun
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
JOJO MOYES

Cheap Chip Country Couture Darling Expression
You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
JOJO MOYES

Anyone Awful Diminish Else Even Happy Make World
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.
JOJO MOYES

Bloke Down Leg Make Pride Pust Ridiculous Setting Settle Some Strip Sure Yourself

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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