You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
JOJO MOYESYou know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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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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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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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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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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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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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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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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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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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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’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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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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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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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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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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