You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
JOJO MOYESI had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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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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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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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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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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