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.
JOJO MOYESThey began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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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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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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 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.
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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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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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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All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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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 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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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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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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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