And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
JOJO MOYESBut just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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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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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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.
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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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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