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.
JOJO MOYESMost days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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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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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Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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And 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 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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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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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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