You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
JOJO MOYESI was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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 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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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