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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?... 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.
Jojo Moyes
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Jojo Moyes
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 4
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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. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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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 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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
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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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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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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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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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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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