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
JOJO MOYESPush yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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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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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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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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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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“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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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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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 felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear 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 all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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