If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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“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 chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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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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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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