But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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 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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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