Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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 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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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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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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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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“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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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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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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