And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
JOJO MOYESYou have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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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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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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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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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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 chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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 thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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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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