There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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“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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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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You 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.
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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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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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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