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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.

Jojo Moyes

It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
JOJO MOYES

Complicate Mean Money Prin Quantitative
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYES

Cry Emotional Fail Feel Gut Key Write
…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
JOJO MOYES

Each Found Like Met Much Other People Story Told Understand
I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
JOJO MOYES

Close Held Loved Nothing Said Silently Tell
I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
JOJO MOYES

Afraid Destroy Life Live Realize Without
You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
JOJO MOYES

Actually Duty Fully Get Life Live One Only Possible
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
JOJO MOYES

Composer Predict Realize Thing Unlock
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-
JOJO MOYES

Back Drunk Frown Go List Money Son Stripper Suicidal Tell Traynor
If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
JOJO MOYES

Able Allow Clarity Exquisite Hour Memory Minute Moment Recall
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….
JOJO MOYES

Alive Catch Dimension Hair Heard Skin Stand Throat
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
JOJO MOYES

Day Ditch Five Forward Hundred Least Move Tomorrow Words Write
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.
JOJO MOYES

Around Ear Heard Made Music Physical Sense Skin
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.
JOJO MOYES

Anyone Anything Country Happen might People Person Survive Thought Vigilant Want
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
JOJO MOYES

Cheap Chip Country Couture Darling Expression
if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
JOJO MOYES

Back Deep Deserve Know Love Mother Okay Root
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.
JOJO MOYES

Alone Always Been Him Hurt Indebled Know Known Let Mend Peace
You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
JOJO MOYES

Anyone Awful Diminish Else Even Happy Make World
I 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.
JOJO MOYES

Angry Better Cause Conscious Day Good Grief Hope Know Less One Pain Upset
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 MOYES

Concert Dress Just Man Minute Raed Want
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.
JOJO MOYES

Drunk Feel Good Hammered Hour Just Morning Pretty Really Small Sometimes Still
She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
JOJO MOYES

After Call Death Even Faintest Feel First Mobile Number Obsessive Temptation Want Year
“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?
JOJO MOYES

Experience Know Person Sort Tell
I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
JOJO MOYES

Believe Benign Chose Forgive God Suffer Trespass Understand
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.
JOJO MOYES

Guarantee Once Perilous Read Someone Spirit Told Walkways Wise Worse Writing Written
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.
JOJO MOYES

Able Annexe Around Crazy Day Dress Every Look Naked Wandering
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.
JOJO MOYES

Broke Care Composer Crumped Face Feel Heart Held Just Like Shudder Stop Tightly Went
A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
JOJO MOYES

Always Determine Love Man Suspect

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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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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