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.
JOJO MOYESI had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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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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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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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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Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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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