Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
JOJO MOYESAnd 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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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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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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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 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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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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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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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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