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.
JOJO MOYESSometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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…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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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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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 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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I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me.
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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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Just live well. Just live
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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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