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.
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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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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 told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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Just live well. Just live
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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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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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