Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
JOJO MOYESYou can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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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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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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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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 thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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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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