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 MOYESThe kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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