“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 MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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.
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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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.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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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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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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