If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYESI had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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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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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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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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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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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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