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.
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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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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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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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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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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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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.
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