Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYES…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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Just live well. Just live
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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 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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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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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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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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