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.
JOJO MOYESif 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Just live well. Just live
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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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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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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