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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.

Jojo Moyes

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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Able Allow Clarity Exquisite Hour Memory Minute Moment Recall
But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Abhor Heart Human Just Nature Vacumn
There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Buried Do Fearlessness Hunger Most People
Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
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Drunk Feel Good Hammered Hour Just Morning Pretty Really Small Sometimes Still
… 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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Confidence Dress Mentally Need Out Physical Wear Well
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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Alter Anniversary Awkward Carry Day Everyone Invisible Lost Most Move Subtily
Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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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 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?
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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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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.
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