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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

Jojo Moyes

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.
JOJO MOYES

Absorb Imprintleft Love Man Myself Osmosis Speak Try
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
JOJO MOYES

All Day Done Listen Sensible Someone Stop Stuff Time
But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
JOJO MOYES

Blame Cow Experiment Food Hundred Incinerate Know Still Way Wife
You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
JOJO MOYES

Actually Duty Fully Get Life Live One Only Possible
I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
JOJO MOYES

Conventional Know Love Story
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.
JOJO MOYES

Able Allow Clarity Exquisite Hour Memory Minute Moment Recall
Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
JOJO MOYES

Drunk Feel Good Hammered Hour Just Morning Pretty Really Small Sometimes Still
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.
JOJO MOYES

Alone Always Been Him Hurt Indebled Know Known Let Mend Peace
“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
JOJO MOYES

Book Else Much Raed Television Want Watch
“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.
JOJO MOYES

Concert Dres Few Girl Just Minute Red Think Want
Just live well. Just live
JOJO MOYES

Just Live Well
There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYES

Buried Do Fearlessness Hunger Most People
if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
JOJO MOYES

Back Deep Deserve Know Love Mother Okay Root
You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
JOJO MOYES

Anywhere Feeling Fit Know Like Quite Spend
I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
JOJO MOYES

Brightness Content Energy Life Potential See Talent
This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
JOJO MOYES

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