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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.

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Moving, Loss, Years

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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.

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You Make Me Happy, Thinking, World

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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

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Moving, Writing, Trying

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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?

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Eye, Voice, Enough

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.333, Penguin

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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

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Airports, Opposites, Atoms

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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

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Life, Listening, Stuff

Jojo Moyes (2014). “The One Plus One”, p.177, Penguin UK

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Just live well. Just live

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Just Live, Live Well, Wells

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.362, Penguin

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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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Suicidal, Son, Drunk

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.140, Penguin

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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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Dresses, Needs, Wells

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.167, Penguin

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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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Two, People, Stories

FaceBook post by Jojo Moyes from Jan 10, 2013

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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.

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Mother, Children, Rocks

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Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

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Successful, Men, Generations

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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.

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Feet, Matter, Obstacles

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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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Wife, Cows, Way

Jojo Moyes (2010). “The Last Letter from Your Lover”, p.433, Hachette UK

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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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Said

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.355, Penguin

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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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Morning, Want, Sometimes

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.264, Penguin

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All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

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Ideas, People, Juggling

Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.328, Penguin UK

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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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World, Want, Might

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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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Heart, Clothes, Inability

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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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Wise, Writing, Guarantees

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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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Girl, Men, Dresses

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.171, Penguin

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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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Memories, Soul, Want

Jojo Moyes (2010). “The Last Letter from Your Lover”, p.117, Hachette UK

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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."

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Book, Home, Tired

"Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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"You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'" "But, I’m not." "How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?"

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Cutting, Ideas, Done

"Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

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Mean, Printing Money, Complicated

Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.281, Penguin

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