Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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She 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.
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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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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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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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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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Just live well. Just live
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