That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
JOJO MOYESI could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything.
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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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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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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Just live well. Just live
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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