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.
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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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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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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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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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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I 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.
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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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