And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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 just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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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 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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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