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Because 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.

Jojo Moyes

“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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Concert Dres Few Girl Just Minute Red Think Want
All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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All Imagine Make Say Someone
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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Each Friend Kind Other Rest Seen Since Year
We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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All God Great Part Pattern Purpose Some Understand
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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Cry Emotional Fail Feel Gut Key Write
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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Change Felt Force Going Live Something Wanted
And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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Able Annexe Around Crazy Day Dress Every Look Naked Wandering
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Actual Help Helped Only Someone Want
How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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Away Dasy Day Death Each Know Live Own Simply Until While
Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Again Become Life Much Own Surprise
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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Ahead Decide Else Everyone Me Though
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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All Day Done Listen Sensible Someone Stop Stuff Time
There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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More Whole Win
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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Consequence Define Great Mistake One Other Result Some Thing
I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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Can Day Done Go Memory Most never Place Regret Thing
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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Close Held Loved Nothing Said Silently Tell
There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Atom Left Myself Nothing Say Speak
Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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Just Live Push Settle Well Yourself
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.
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Exist Invalid Life Normal Hour Real Remove Slip Stall
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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After Call Death Even Faintest Feel First Mobile Number Obsessive Temptation Want Year
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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Know Laugh Lind Pink Taught
Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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Believe Certain Dentist Description Drill Hour Joke Less Loose Mouth Power
Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Bloody Dress Only Tell Wear Will Woman You
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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Day Ditch Five Forward Hundred Least Move Tomorrow Words Write
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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Bear Head Hert Honestly Overwhemned Stomach Under
You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Almost Except Grown Instantaneously Thing Way
All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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All Couple Basically Draft Idea Juggling Just People Truth

Because 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.

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Because 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.

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