And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
JOJO MOYESI let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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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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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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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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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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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