I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
JOJO MOYESNobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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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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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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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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“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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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