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You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

Jojo Moyes

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
But just as nature abhors a vacuum — so does the human heart.
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Abhor Heart Human Just Nature Vacumn
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
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
“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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Experience Know Person Sort Tell
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
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
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
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
How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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Exist Heart Hold Much Pain Possibly
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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Composer Predict Realize Thing Unlock
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
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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Deep Delicious Found Inhale Myself Seep Silently Skin Smell Something Sun
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Actual Help Helped Only Someone Want
Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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Alter Anniversary Awkward Carry Day Everyone Invisible Lost Most Move Subtily

You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

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