You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
JOJO MOYESIs that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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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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Most 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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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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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