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.
JOJO MOYESI know this isn’t a conventional love story.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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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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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.
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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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“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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Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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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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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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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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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 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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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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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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My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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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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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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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“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person'” “But, I’m not.” “How do you know?
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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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