And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
JOJO MOYESBut just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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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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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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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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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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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,
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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.
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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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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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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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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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