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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Jojo Moyes

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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Broke Care Composer Crumped Face Feel Heart Held Just Like Shudder Stop Tightly Went
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
I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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Each Found Like Met Much Other People Story Told Understand
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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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
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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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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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
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If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours.
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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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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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“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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Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?” She taps the side of her head.
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Just live well. Just live
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Just Live Well
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
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 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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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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I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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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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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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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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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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I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

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