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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.

Jojo Moyes

I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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Close Held Loved Nothing Said Silently Tell
She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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After Call Death Even Faintest Feel First Mobile Number Obsessive Temptation Want Year
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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Back Deep Deserve Know Love Mother Okay Root
Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Atom Hard Know Nothing Opposite Say Strain
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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Bad Cloth Complete Day First Heart Joke People Ridiculous Score Walk
If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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Ask Bother Call Cut Once Our People
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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Anyone Awful Diminish Else Even Happy Make World
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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Back Even Father Mother Okay Rock Still Thrown Whole World
Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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Afraid Drop Gaze Hold Just Minute Pinch Some Trap
“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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Experience Know Person Sort Tell
This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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Night Place Radius Sleep Surprise Take Thing Unable
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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Atom Left Myself Nothing Say Speak
Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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Get Morning People Pretty Make Something Up Want
And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Choice No Simple Suddenly Very
If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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Able Allow Clarity Exquisite Hour Memory Minute Moment Recall
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
I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics-
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Back Drunk Frown Go List Money Son Stripper Suicidal Tell Traynor
My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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Alive Almost Anticipation Else End Jangled never Seem Some
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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Cheap Chip Country Couture Darling Expression
Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Hand Heart Hold Hope Know
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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Drunk Feel Good Hammered Hour Just Morning Pretty Really Small Sometimes Still
I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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Angry Better Cause Conscious Day Good Grief Hope Know Less One Pain Upset
That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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Bite Hangover Just Old Out Toy Work
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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Broke Care Composer Crumped Face Feel Heart Held Just Like Shudder Stop Tightly Went
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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Force How Idea might Other People Rethink Seem
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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Against Back Become Breath Eys Kiss Mingled Salt Tear Try
You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Actually Duty Fully Get Life Live One Only Possible

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