Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
JOJO MOYESBut just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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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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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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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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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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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 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.
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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 chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Just live well. Just live
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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