You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
JOJO MOYESYou’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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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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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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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 let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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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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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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