Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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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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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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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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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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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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