And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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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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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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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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 had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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