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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.

Jojo Moyes

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
You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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Chose Especially Expect Love Man Successful Take Time
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
I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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Concert Dress Just Man Minute Raed Want
That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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Bite Hangover Just Old Out Toy Work
Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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Enough Everything Get Head Know Listen She Tap
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
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
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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Blame Cow Experiment Food Hundred Incinerate Know Still Way Wife
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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Deep Delicious Found Inhale Myself Seep Silently Skin Smell Something Sun
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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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
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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Consequence Define Great Mistake One Other Result Some Thing
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
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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Composer Predict Realize Thing Unlock
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
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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Accept Country Idea Kind Knowledge Little People Person Right
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
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
I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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Airpot Anything Kill Nearly Practice Say
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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Guarantee Once Perilous Read Someone Spirit Told Walkways Wise Worse Writing Written
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
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
You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
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Choice Clark Country Happen Let People Them
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
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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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

And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.

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