She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
JOJO MOYESI 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-
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Just live well. Just live
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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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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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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