“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYES
I 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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 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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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 frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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