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?
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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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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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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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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 you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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