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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

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
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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Angry Better Cause Conscious Day Good Grief Hope Know Less One Pain Upset
But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Abhor Heart Human Just Nature Vacumn
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
Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
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Astonishingly Dress Girl Just Men Please
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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Bloke Down Leg Make Pride Pust Ridiculous Setting Settle Some Strip Sure Yourself
Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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Again Become Life Much Own Surprise
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
Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other.
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Foot Front Matter Obstacle Other Put Series Sometimes
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
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
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
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
I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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Change Felt Force Going Live Something Wanted
… 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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Confidence Dress Mentally Need Out Physical Wear Well
I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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Alone Always Been Him Hurt Indebled Know Known Let Mend Peace

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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