He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
JOJO MOYESBelieve 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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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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… 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 worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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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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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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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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