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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.

Jojo Moyes

“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
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.
JOJO MOYES

Ahead Decide Else Everyone Me Though
Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYES

Astonishingly Dress Girl Just Men Please
The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
JOJO MOYES

Children Know Letting Okay Only People Really Rock Throw Whole
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

Against Back Become Breath Eys Kiss Mingled Salt Tear Try
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 have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYES

Almost Except Grown Instantaneously Thing Way
Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
JOJO MOYES

Again Become Life Much Own Surprise
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
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
Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
JOJO MOYES

Atom Hard Know Nothing Opposite Say Strain
She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
JOJO MOYES

Know Laugh Lind Pink Taught
Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
JOJO MOYES

Hand Heart Hold Hope Know
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.
JOJO MOYES

Bear Head Hert Honestly Overwhemned Stomach Under
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
JOJO MOYES

Cheap Chip Country Couture Darling Expression
That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
JOJO MOYES

Bite Hangover Just Old Out Toy Work

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