“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
JOJO MOYESI 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.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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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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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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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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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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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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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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“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.”
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If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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