There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYESOh, 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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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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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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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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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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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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But 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.
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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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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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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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