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.
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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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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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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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