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.
JOJO MOYESI thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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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