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 MOYESShe 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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I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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“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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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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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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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.
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Just live well. Just live
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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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I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.
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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?
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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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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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