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.
JOJO MOYESThere is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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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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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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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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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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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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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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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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