She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
JOJO MOYESThere 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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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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“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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Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life…well, gradually became livable again.
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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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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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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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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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Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.
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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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I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.
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