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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

Jojo Moyes

If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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Cry Emotional Fail Feel Gut Key Write
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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Alter Anniversary Awkward Carry Day Everyone Invisible Lost Most Move Subtily
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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Each Friend Kind Other Rest Seen Since Year
Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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Believe Certain Dentist Description Drill Hour Joke Less Loose Mouth Power
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.
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Exist Invalid Life Normal Hour Real Remove Slip Stall
I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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Another Being Brief Connected Did Feel Human Intensely Moment never Thought
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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Attention Away Babbling Besides Hear Play Really
Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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Adjust Everything Generation Harder Something Take Time
Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?
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End Forbidden Husband Just relief Watch Wonder
Just live well. Just live
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Just Live Well
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Actual Help Helped Only Someone Want
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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Around Ear Heard Made Music Physical Sense Skin
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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Alive Catch Dimension Hair Heard Skin Stand Throat
I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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Absorb Imprintleft Love Man Myself Osmosis Speak Try
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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Alone Always Been Him Hurt Indebled Know Known Let Mend Peace
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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Against Being Capture Else Face Hard Life might New Somewhere Thing Whole

I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

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