I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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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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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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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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“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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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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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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