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.
JOJO MOYESI know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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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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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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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Just live well. Just 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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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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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