After You Quotes

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Jojo Moyes
“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“moving on means we have to protect ourselves.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Why had I wasted so much time worrying about what was not important?”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“We want their presence to feel like a gift.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Thank you for their continuing faith and endless support.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Whatever I said to anyone else, I knew I would always regret to my bones missing the chance to live and work in New York. That no matter how much I told myself there would be other chances, other places, this would be the lost opportunity I carried, like a cheap handbag I regretted buying, wherever I went.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“...tried to make it sound like a positive career choice rather than a cry for help.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“I'm so very glad to know you. You've changed everything so much simply by existing.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren't all destined to leave a trail of damage.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“...pretty much everyone bore the brutal imprint of love, whether lost, whipped away from them or simply vanished into a grave.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“To commit to Sam was to commit to the likelihood of more loss.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Statistically most relationships ended badly and, given my mental state over the past two years, my chances of beating the odds were pretty low. We could talk around it, we could lose ourselves in brief moments, but love ultimately meant more pain.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“What else could I say? It was a job. Progress of sorts.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“I didn't tell her about the days when it felt like a peculiar form of torture to work somewhere where I was forced to watch each plane taxi on the runway, gather its energy like a great bird, then launch itself into the sky.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“...and with that tiny action, I was suddenly filled with purpose.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“I listened to her litany of frustration and tried not to think about the time.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Now I sat on a moulded plastic chair, my mind numb, my gaze fixed on a wall, unable to tell how long I had been there. I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed: me, the plastic chair, the squeaky linoleum under my bloodied tennis shoes.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“I just let myself exist in the moment, the deep, deep pleasure of being there next to him, of feeling the weight of him beside me, the space he took up in the atmosphere.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“I could hear him thinking the million things he chose not to say.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“But long-distance relationships rarely survive.'

'So we are in a relationship.'

I started to protest and he smiled. 'I'm kidding. Some. Some don't survive. I'm guessing some do, though. I guess it depends how much both sides want to try.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“That's life. We don't know what will happen. Which is why we have to take our chances while we can. And...I think this might be yours.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“Every blown leaf was a sign of impending decrepitude, every airborne bird a sign of hopes and dreams.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“I had a million things to say and none I knew how.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Ehsan Sehgal
“After You
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I became so empty
After you left me
I couldn't love someone else”
Ehsan Sehgal

Lang Leav
“I don’t know where it comes from, all this love I have for you. I don’t know where to put it now that you’re gone.”
Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

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