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.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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 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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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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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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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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