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.
JOJO MOYESYou’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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Just live well. Just live
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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable 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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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