There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYESOnly you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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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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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’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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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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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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