I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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 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
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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