Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
JOJO MOYESJust live well. Just live
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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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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He 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.
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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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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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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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 told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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