I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

Jojo Moyes

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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feelin... by Jojo Moyes

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

emotional keys writing

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as full... by Jojo Moyes

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

duty

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. 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.

office home feelings

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.

pieces hurt way

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.

comfort doe world

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

results choices mistake

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE. by Jojo Moyes

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

push-yourself settling just-live

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.

rocks mother father

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice. by Jojo Moyes

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

choices simple

There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, lik... by Jojo Moyes

There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

buried hunger people

She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

loss years moving

There is a whole lot more to life than winning. by Jojo Moyes

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

more-to-life whole winning

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart. by Jojo Moyes

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

vacuums doe heart

All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.

you-make-me-happy world thinking

He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.

skins found sun

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop list... by Jojo Moyes

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

listening stuff life

The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

rocks mother children

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

obstacles matter feet

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was onl... by Jojo Moyes

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

cycles patterns purpose

...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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