A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
JOJO MOYESOnly you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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 chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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