And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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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’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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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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.
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