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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.

Jojo Moyes

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.
JOJO MOYES

Absorb Imprintleft Love Man Myself Osmosis Speak Try
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.
JOJO MOYES

Anyone Awful Diminish Else Even Happy Make World
Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I…i can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.
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Accept Country Idea Kind Knowledge Little People Person Right
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
“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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Book Else Much Raed Television Want Watch
You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Actually Duty Fully Get Life Live One Only Possible
“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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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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Away Dasy Day Death Each Know Live Own Simply Until While
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.
JOJO MOYES

Afraid Drop Gaze Hold Just Minute Pinch Some Trap
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
JOJO MOYES

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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
JOJO MOYES

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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.
JOJO MOYES

Change Felt Force Going Live Something Wanted
Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk.
JOJO MOYES

Drunk Feel Good Hammered Hour Just Morning Pretty Really Small Sometimes Still
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.
JOJO MOYES

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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
JOJO MOYES

Atom Hard Know Nothing Opposite Say Strain
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.
JOJO MOYES

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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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
I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
JOJO MOYES

Almost Between End Invisible Mile Shrink Thread
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.
JOJO MOYES

Bit Country Even Know Little Love People Person Reason Say Sort
Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
JOJO MOYES

Astonishingly Dress Girl Just Men Please
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.
JOJO MOYES

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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-
JOJO MOYES

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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?
JOJO MOYES

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I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
JOJO MOYES

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We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.
JOJO MOYES

All God Great Part Pattern Purpose Some Understand

I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.

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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.

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