I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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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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“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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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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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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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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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.
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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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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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