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.
JOJO MOYESI 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 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 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 know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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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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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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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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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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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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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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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