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Jojo Moyes

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01Undated

Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

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02Undated

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

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03Undated

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

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04Undated

I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didn’t expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall.

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05Undated

No. Really. I've thought about it a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they're not living, breathing people any more. It's not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It's just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a whole. I don't know. It's like you become... a doughnut instead of a bun.

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06Undated

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

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07Undated

It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief

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08Undated

Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

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09Undated

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

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10Undated

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

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11Undated

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

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12Undated

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

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13Undated

When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

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14Undated

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.

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15Undated

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

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16Undated

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.

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17Undated

Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you're my chance?

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18Undated

You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises.

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19Undated

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.

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20Undated

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

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21Undated

Kind eyes under all the mascara.

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22Undated

Le Marais?’‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It’s the only place to stay.

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23Undated

Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’‘I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.

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24Undated

The triumph of hope over experience.

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