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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

Jojo Moyes

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Jojo Moyes
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 4
Journalist
Novelist
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Pauline Sara Jo Moyes
Winning
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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. 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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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect. 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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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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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.
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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. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ? She taps the side of her head. Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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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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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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Just live well. Just live
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. 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. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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