…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 MOYESHow could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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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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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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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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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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