There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYESYou 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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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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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 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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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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