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.
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 can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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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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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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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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