There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYESIf I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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