“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
JOJO MOYESI had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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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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“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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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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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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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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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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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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Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
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But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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