"I'm not going to try and change you……" — Jojo Moyes
"I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak..."
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65 Quotes by Jojo Moyes
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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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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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