How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
JOJO MOYESI could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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 thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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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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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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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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