“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.”
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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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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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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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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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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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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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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Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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