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.
JOJO MOYESBecause even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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 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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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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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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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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