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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.

Jojo Moyes

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
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
I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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Another Because Become Man Mean Reminder Want
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
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
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.
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Against Being Capture Else Face Hard Life might New Somewhere Thing Whole
How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Exist Heart Hold Much Pain Possibly
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
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
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
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
You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
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Always Bit Comfort Going Knock New Out Strange Uncomfortable World Zone
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
Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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Blind Faith Matter Realize Simply Sometimes Sudden
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
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Actual Help Helped Only Someone Want
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
There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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Buried Do Fearlessness Hunger Most People
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 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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Almost Between End Invisible Mile Shrink Thread
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 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
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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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
Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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Allevited Give Know Luxury Possibilities Something
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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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