And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
JOJO MOYESIt 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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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?
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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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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 realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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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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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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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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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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