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.
JOJO MOYESEverything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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 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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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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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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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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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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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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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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