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.
JOJO MOYESThis life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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.
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She 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.
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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.
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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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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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