I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Just live well. Just live
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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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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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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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