I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
JOJO MOYESI 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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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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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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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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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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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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 am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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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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