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 MOYES“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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 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.
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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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This 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.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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