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.
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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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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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…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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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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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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“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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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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