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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

And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you.
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Able Annexe Around Crazy Day Dress Every Look Naked Wandering
You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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Anywhere Feeling Fit Know Like Quite Spend
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
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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Against Back Become Breath Eys Kiss Mingled Salt Tear Try
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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Guarantee Once Perilous Read Someone Spirit Told Walkways Wise Worse Writing Written
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
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
So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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Bad Cloth Complete Day First Heart Joke People Ridiculous Score Walk
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
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-
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Back Drunk Frown Go List Money Son Stripper Suicidal Tell Traynor
“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you,
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Children Know Letting Okay Only People Really Rock Throw Whole
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
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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Blame Cow Experiment Food Hundred Incinerate Know Still Way Wife
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
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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