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.
JOJO MOYESThat evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met 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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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