If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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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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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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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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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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