But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
JOJO MOYESI’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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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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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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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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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