That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
JOJO MOYESYou have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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,
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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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 held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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