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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

Jojo Moyes

That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
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Detect Energy Evening Glow Suspect Vibration
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 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 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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Brightness Content Energy Life Potential See Talent
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
I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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Actual Again Ended Good Happen Nothing World
They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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Auditorium Began Fill Single Sound Suddenly Tune
That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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Bite Hangover Just Old Out Toy Work
There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
JOJO MOYES

Buried Do Fearlessness Hunger Most People
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.
JOJO MOYES

After Call Death Even Faintest Feel First Mobile Number Obsessive Temptation Want Year
Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Again Become Life Much Own Surprise
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
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
And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Choice No Simple Suddenly Very
Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
JOJO MOYES

Blind Faith Matter Realize Simply Sometimes Sudden
“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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Activity Day Get Home might One Tired Wish
She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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Know Laugh Lind Pink Taught
You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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Choice Clark Country Happen Let People Them
But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Abhor Heart Human Just Nature Vacumn
How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Exist Heart Hold Much Pain Possibly
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
How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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Away Dasy Day Death Each Know Live Own Simply Until While
Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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Bloke Down Leg Make Pride Pust Ridiculous Setting Settle Some Strip Sure Yourself
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.
JOJO MOYES

Change Felt Force Going Live Something Wanted
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
We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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All God Great Part Pattern Purpose Some Understand
It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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Bear Head Hert Honestly Overwhemned Stomach Under

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

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