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It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting.
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But Lucy, I've no money." I put my face up to his and smiled. He smiled back. "Frankly my dear," I beamed, "I don't give a damn." I had always wanted to say that."
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However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are.
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I remember reading somewhere that the chemicals produced in the brain by a lengthy Twitter session are similar to those produced by cocaine.
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Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne's part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all ... Christ, it was too early in the morning for this sort of mental gymnastics.
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You were the one who wanted me to come here with you, so you'd better have the bloody manners to talk to me. If you wanted to flirt with someone then why did you invite me?" "Sorry, Lucy; you're right; forgive me, Lucy." He sounded humble but he certainly did not look it. "And you can knock of that naughty little boy smile," I continued."
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I don't want to be dead. I'm curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?
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Look," she sighed. "You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the chance. My kids wouldn't even be able to remember what I was wearing to tell the police. And all the recent photographs of me are bad, very jowly. I couldn't have them stuck to the lamp posts around the city. On your way, son." (Woman to Matt, when he tried to give her a lift.)"
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Katie's mum, Penny, said "I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now." And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. "He'll make mincemeat of you." He won't," Katie protested. "I'm not going to fall for him." So why are you bothering at all?" Just killing time until I die."
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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together - Marilyn Monroe
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But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did. I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway.
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Desserts. I ordered banoffee pie.
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I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled.
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If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.
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To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.
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Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.
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Perhaps one day in the far-off future, when I'm about eighty-nine, I might look back and say, "When I was a young-ish woman I fell in love with an intense charismatic man. He was way out of my league and when it ended it nearly killed me, but every woman should experience that sort of love once in their lives. Only once, mind, you mightn't survive a second bout. A bit like dengue fever, that way." I"
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I couldn't stand to be alone. But there was no one that I wanted to be with. And no matter where I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter who I was with, no matter what I was doing, no matter where I was, it was wrong, I didn't want it. Every night, I sat with crowds of people and I felt totally alone.
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Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans?
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That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!
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Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
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sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
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Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The
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Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.
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I awake. I don't mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.
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Some people can make their ears move--it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick.
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Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In"
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dreaming. But I know it's real." "When I woke up this morning" --
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But being a survivor is hard bloody work, harder than it looks, and I think I might be running low on survivor juice. Given the choice, I'd far rather a pampered life of indulgence where nothing bad ever happens.
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This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house Empty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honourably, He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
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No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.
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A cynical type might suggest that it was all a little too perfect. But a cynical type would be wrong.
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Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I'm forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there's no way I'd reveal this elderly body to a new man. It'd be like Game of Thrones when Melisandra takes off her necklace and ages nine hundred years.
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I did all kinds of reckless things that look great if you're driving a fast car. I pulled away form traffic lights with a roar, leaving the other drivers staring bitterly after me - that was called "burning them up" said Daniel. I drove out in front of other cars - Daniel said that was called "cutting them up" and while we were stuck in a traffic jam, I winked and smiled at attractive men in other cars - Daniel said that was called "acting ..
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A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.
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wife
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Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.
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Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.
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Is this what life is all about? To bring us face to face with our worst fears until they no longer scare us?
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They seem like a different race to me and I make sure never to get into disagreements with them, because any puny thing I say gets dashed on the rocks of their robust, shouty certainty.
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Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place."
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I wake with a thought: This is my life. I've only got one. I should live it the way I want
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I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.
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ends up sleeping in your bed.
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