If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
JOJO MOYESAll I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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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“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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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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 frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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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