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
JOJO MOYESYou know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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.
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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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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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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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I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
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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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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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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.
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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.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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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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