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 MOYESMy nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else,
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When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
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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 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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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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I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.
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“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”
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There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.
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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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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 thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
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They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound.
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I can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
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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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It’s complicated.’ ‘So’s quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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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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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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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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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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If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
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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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It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.
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