I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
JOJO MOYESMost 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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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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