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.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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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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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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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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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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I 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.
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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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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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