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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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