Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
JOJO MOYESYou can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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