If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYESSo 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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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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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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