I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
JOJO MOYESI 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
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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 know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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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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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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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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