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.
JOJO MOYESThere are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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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 told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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