I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
JOJO MOYESHe smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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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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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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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