Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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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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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“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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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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… 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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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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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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