Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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…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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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 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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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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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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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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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.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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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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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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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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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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