That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.
JOJO MOYESI 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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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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’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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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“What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?”.
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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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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.
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And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.
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You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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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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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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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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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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