There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYESYou 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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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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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.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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 had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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