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There was nothing wrong with having an expensive home, nothing wrong at all. There's a pride in building something up, working hard to achieve something. But it shouldn't have been his manhood that increased with each new success, it should have been his heart. His success was like the witch in 'Hansel and Gretel' fairy tale: it fed him for all the wrong reasons, fattening him in all the wrong places. Dad deserved his success, he just neede..
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wealth
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I lost something that I thought defined me and I felt like a shell of a person. Instead of trying to get it back, I had to figure out why I couldn't be whole all by myself.
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The hips were the leaders of this conspiracy. So I rang my boss and held the phone to my hips so he could hear them too.
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humor
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Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. You would think it would be an innate human instinct but no, i inhale and forget to exhale and so I find my body rigid, all tensed up, heart pounding , chest tight with an anxious head wondering what's wrong.
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I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.
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struggle
time
courage
fear
overcome
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And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I'm doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think "I'm where I want to be now."
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But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.
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She roared with laughter. Passersby gave her strange looks, but she didn't care. If she'd been able to stretch her vision to see beyond the trees he disappeared behind, she would have stopped laughing. She would have seen the couple who'd been in the dark street near the restaurant the previous night, again breaking into laughter when he felt it was safe to abandon the Wally persona. Everywhere she saw that one man, she didn't see the woman..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I'm not one of those people who live and breathes their job, I don't take it so seriously that I want to stay longer than I am paid for or want to socialize with people I spend most of my waking hours with and would never choose to say more than two words to in the real world.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up),
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Cecelia Ahern |
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How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People, like houses, hold their secrets. Sometimes the secrets inhabit them, and sometimes people inhabit their secrets. They wrap their arms tight to hug them close, twist their lying tongues around the truth. But, like gravy left overnight, the truth is a thin layer of film that forms and covers the surface. The truth prevails, rises above all else. It squirms and wriggles inside, grows until the swollen tongue can't wrap itself around th..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it's good to see you've got your wits about you.
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The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn't like it. She thought she was a better person than this.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.
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So how long have you been together? Two months?' 'Five.' 'Five? Jesus, Steve, you might as well get married. I should buy a hat.' 'Don't. They give away your Spock ears.' She laughed. 'This is the Romanian girl?' 'Croatian.' 'Right. She's a painter?' 'Photographer.' 'Right.' She studied him. 'What?' he laughed self-consciously as though he was a twelve-year-old boy who'd just been caught with his first girlfriend. 'Nothing.' 'Come on.' 'I d..
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relationship
kitty-logan
victoria-beckham
restaurant
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that's the problem with paradise--nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I believe you, Tamara, I just don't believe it.
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trust
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Well that's the problem with paradise--nothing attracts a serpent quite like
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Cecelia Ahern |
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no matter where you are, you always need a best friend
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I don't think she liked being called a slut, I don't know why... some women are just funny like that.
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FatherMichael: OK we should get on with this; I don't want to be late for my 2 o'clock. First I have to ask, is there anyone in here who thinks there is any reason why these two should not be married? LonelyLady: Yes. SureOne: I could give more than one reason. Buttercup: Hell yes. SoOverHim: DON'T DO IT!
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marriage
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Cecelia Ahern |
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And nice is okay when it's among other things, but never when it stands alone.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Wanting everything that's mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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On ubiraet volosy s moego lba i gromko plachet. Ia nikogda ne slyshala, chtoby on plakal. Dazhe kogda umerla mama. On szhimaet moiu ruku s siloi, o sushchestvovanii kotoroi v ego starom tele ia ne podozrevala, i vspominaiu, chto ia - eto vse, chto u nego est', i chto on opiat', kak i ran'she, - ves' moi mir. Krov' prodolzhaet v speshke nestis' po moemu telu. Skorei, skorei, skorei. My vsegda speshim. Mozhet byt', ia opiat' speshu. Mozhet by..
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A ved' na etot raz Bog otvetil na vse moi molitvy. Proshloi noch'iu On uzh tochno uslyshal moi prizyv. On skazal mne... - Tut v golose ottsa nachinaet zvuchat' usvoennyi v detstve sil'nyi aktsent grafstva Kavan, kotoryi on utratil, kogda podrostkom pereekhal v Dublin. - "Ne volnuisia, Genri, ia khorosho tebia slyshu. Vse pod kontrolem, tak chto ne perezhivai. Ia sdelaiu eto dlia tebia, net problem". I On spas tebia. On ostavil moiu devochku..
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And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could.
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everybody, every single person, has a story to tell. Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. We might all think that we are unremarkable, that our lives are boring, just because we aren't doing ground-breaking things or making headlines or winning awards. But the truth is we all do something that is fascinating, that is brave, that is something we should proud of.
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hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted
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and a suitcase of memories.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I know that. I just don't feel it sometimes. Over there I felt like I hadn't a care in the world. Things felt so good and it was almost as if every muscle in my body relaxed the moment I landed there. I haven't laughed so much in years. I felt like a 23-year-old, Steph. I haven't felt like that much lately. I know this probably sounds weird but I felt like the me that I could have been. I liked that I didn't have to look out for somebody el..
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Moments are precious; sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeting, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change your mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.
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Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants to bring it to the hospital himself, survey the wards and present it to someone special, for it's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a very long time.
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So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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I nurtured with a view to eventually saying goodbye, he nurtured to hold on.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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To borrow means to take and use something belonging to someone else and then eventually return it.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People do whatever the hell they want to do at any age they fancy. Last month you were thirty-five. That means you're five years from forty. Do you think that the day you reach forty you will be any different than you were at thirty-nine or forty-one for that matter? People create little ideas about ages so they can write silly self-help books, stick stupid comments in birthday cards, create names for internet chat rooms and look for excuse..
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Oh, it's called, em...' Kate thinks, 'I can't remember what it's called.' 'You're the same as me,' Dad says to her. 'You've got CRAFT too.' 'What's that?' 'Can't. Remember. A. Fuc-
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. --
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Mira alla luna. Anche se la manchi, rimarrai sempre tra le stelle.
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Cecelia Ahern |
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You've come to give me a piece of your mind, I repeated, looking at her. "You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body, you know, whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it...well, thank you, Elizabeth. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love. There's another funny thing. But..
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you for ever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after they're gone.
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