“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYESSometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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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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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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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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Just live well. Just 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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