You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYESBut don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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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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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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