I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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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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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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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 know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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