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.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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 all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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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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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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