I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
JOJO MOYESThe most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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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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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 thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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 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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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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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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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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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