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 MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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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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Just live well. Just live
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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