Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
JOJO MOYESMuch to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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Just live well. Just live
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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.
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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.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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