I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
JOJO MOYESThe thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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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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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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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.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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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 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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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 have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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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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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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