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.
JOJO MOYESAstonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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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 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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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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.
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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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 life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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