How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
JOJO MOYESI chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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 worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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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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“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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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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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