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.
JOJO MOYESI had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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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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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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