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 MOYESJust hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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.
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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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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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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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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.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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 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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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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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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