There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
JOJO MOYESShe does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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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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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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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