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 MOYESMost days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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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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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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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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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 felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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