Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
JOJO MOYES“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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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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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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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.
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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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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.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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“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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The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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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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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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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