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?
JOJO MOYESThere is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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.
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… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.
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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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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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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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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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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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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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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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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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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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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