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.
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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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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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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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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