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I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach... I think I'm in love with you... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.
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Jill Mansell |
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Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?
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Jill Mansell |
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But money or no money we're all searching for the same things aren't we It doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have. Love and happiness that's what it's all about
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Jill Mansell |
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Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.
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Jill Mansell |
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This not flirting and just-being-friends business was going to be bloody hard.
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Jill Mansell |
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Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all.
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Jill Mansell |
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because this was what happened when you loved someone too much and they didn't love you back. They grew stronger and you grew weaker and more helpless. They humiliated you and you let them do it. And you ended up with no self-respect, not even caring that other people were pointing and laughing at you ...
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Jill Mansell |
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Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac.
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Jill Mansell |
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The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would.
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Jill Mansell |
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Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.
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Jill Mansell |
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If you marry for money, you end up earning every penny.
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Jill Mansell |
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Oh my god, two days ago I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. Tonight I find out she's insane
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Jill mansell |
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Desejava uma verdadeira livraria tal como um viciado deseja uma dose. Nao havia mesmo nada melhor do que aquele maravilhoso cheiro a livros novos, tocar nas capas e folhear um livro, cujas paginas, se calhar, nunca tinham sido folheadas. (...) Ha pessoas obececadas e apaixonadas por sapatos. Os sapatos eram bonitos, mas nao se podia ficar a noite toda acordade a ler um par, pois nao?
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Jill Mansell |
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The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over to pick it up, I thought that was it, I was going to flood the road! And I'm not even exaggerating. I've never been so desperate in my life.
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Jill Mansell |
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She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.
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Jill Mansell |
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He bestowed his smiles indiscriminately and left a trail of havoc in his wake.
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Jill Mansell |
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Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic
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Jill Mansell |
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Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger.
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Jill Mansell |
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On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me?
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Jill Mansell |
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There was an element of risk - however small - in everything. You just had to accept that and get on with it.
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Jill Mansell |
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I just needed to hear someone else say it. I do deserve better.
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Jill Mansell |
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Once a Pot Noodler, always a Pot Noodler.
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Jill Mansell |
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What if everything she most dreaded was happening now?
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Jill Mansell |
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Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.
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Jill Mansell |
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Abbie wondered why she was even bothering to stay alive, when she was evidently so gullible and pathetic and pointless. The only thing that stopped her taking an overdose was, she couldn't be bothered.
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Jill Mansell |
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Ah, the old don't-need-a-man thing. I love that line. I mean it sounds great, and girls love to say that stuff because it makes them sound all strong and independent. But it's not actually true, is it? Deep down they're panicking, getting more and more desperate, and the next thing you know, they're hurling themselves into a new relationship.
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Jill Mansell |
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Having to pretend nothing was wrong, when everything was wrong, was excruciating.
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Jill Mansell |
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She'd got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excuses as to why she couldn't make it.
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Jill Mansell |
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And just because she was crossing her fingers didn't mean her wish would come true.
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Jill Mansell |
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Just because it's normal doesn't make it any easier.
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Jill Mansell |
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Was this rock bottom? Had he finally hit it?
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Jill Mansell |
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It might not be much. OK, it wasn't much. But it was a start.
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Jill Mansell |
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She was tired, her back was aching, and her life was.
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Jill Mansell |
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He actually didn't have a clue what he'd put her through.
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Jill Mansell |
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You already know he's a pathetic excuse for a man and you deserve better.
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Jill Mansell |
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Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand
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Jill Mansell |
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She looked down at the hand and saw that it was clutching instead a handful of perfume card samplers, each one sprayed with a different scent.
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Jill Mansell |
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All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life.
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Jill Mansell |
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On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea
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Jill Mansell |
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Whenever a property was about to go on the market, Ronan's advice to the owners was to declutter as much as they could cope with and remove all family photos from view. Potential buyers needed to be able to picture themselves in their new home, he always explained, and photographs of other people and their families were a distraction.
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Jill Mansell |
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Erin wilde inmiddels dat ze niet zo aardig was geweest. Dat krijg je ervan; je werd meteen gestraft.
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Jill Mansell |
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Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than anyone else in the world loved you too?
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Jill Mansell |
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Why would you want to leave?' 'I've just made up my mind. It's the best thing to do. Lots of people move to London.' 'Lots of people living in London wish they could move to Cornwall.' Tears were now rolling down Millie's cheeks. Silently, they dripped on to the starched cotton sheets pulled up over her knees. When she was confident she could sound normal - and not as if she was blubbing like a big baby - she said, 'I just think I need a ch..
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Jill Mansell |
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Lucas, I wouldn't drive five
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