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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 Moyes

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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Else Fight Mercy Most Nobody Part Sister Vulnerable Will
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
I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.
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Anyone Anything Country Happen might People Person Survive Thought Vigilant Want
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
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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Back Even Father Mother Okay Rock Still Thrown Whole World
I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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Bit Country Even Know Little Love People Person Reason Say Sort
I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
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Happen Happy Make Myself Trained Want Work
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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Around Ear Heard Made Music Physical Sense Skin
Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.
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Adjust Everything Generation Harder Something Take Time
The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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Conspiracy Kind Laugh Spoke
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 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
“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…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 Dres Few Girl Just Minute Red Think Want
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
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Close Held Loved Nothing Said Silently Tell
Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Astonishingly Dress Girl Just Men Please
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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Back Drunk Frown Go List Money Son Stripper Suicidal Tell Traynor
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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Day Ditch Five Forward Hundred Least Move Tomorrow Words Write
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 will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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Can Day Done Go Memory Most never Place Regret Thing
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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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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Almost Except Grown Instantaneously Thing Way
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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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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Choice No Simple Suddenly Very
You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Anywhere Feeling Fit Know Like Quite Spend
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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Cheap Chip Country Couture Darling Expression
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

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?

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