If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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“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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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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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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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 will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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