You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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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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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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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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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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