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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.

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
I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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Actual Again Ended Good Happen Nothing World
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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Alive Almost Anticipation Else End Jangled never Seem Some
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
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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Attention Away Babbling Besides Hear Play Really
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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Know Laugh Lind Pink Taught
I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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Believe Benign Chose Forgive God Suffer Trespass Understand
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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Cry Emotional Fail Feel Gut Key Write
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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Each Friend Kind Other Rest Seen Since Year
She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.
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After Call Death Even Faintest Feel First Mobile Number Obsessive Temptation Want Year
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
But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Abhor Heart Human Just Nature Vacumn
All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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All Couple Basically Draft Idea Juggling Just People Truth
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.
JOJO MOYES

Blame Cow Experiment Food Hundred Incinerate Know Still Way Wife
If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
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Able Allow Clarity Exquisite Hour Memory Minute Moment Recall
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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Always Ask Bother Hate Horse Race Told

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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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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