I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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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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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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