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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
Jojo Moyes
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Jojo Moyes
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 4
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Pauline Sara Jo Moyes
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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
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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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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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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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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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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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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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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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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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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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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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
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But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.
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