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“I wondered how it would feel to be out there, on your own, in the middle of nowhere.”
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“I thought about how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason, and then I thought, despite all that, in the end maybe you have to lose them all in order to truly find yourself.”
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“A bubble of giggles had started to build in my chest and I pleaded with some unseen deity to keep them under control.”
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“Given the elegance of the occasion and the spectacular nature of the setting, I should really have enjoyed the next couple of hours. I had said yes to a new experience, after all. But in truth I felt increasingly out of place among the corporate couples.”
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“She got up and she sat down, plumping cushions, checking a clock for some invisible appointment.”
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“In truth, her grief made me uncomfortable. It was too close to a place I had been, and not that long ago. I was wary of her sadness, as if it were contagious, and found myself looking for excuses to stay away from her, trying to keep myself busy so that I didn't have to absorb it too.”
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“I heard the priest murmur the familiar recitation about dust and ashes and my eyes filled with tears. I wiped them away with a handkerchief.”
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“You know,' she said, 'when you get to my age, the pile of regrets becomes so huge it can obscure the view terribly.”
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“I'm dying, Louisa. I'm an old woman and I'm not going to get an awful lot older, and my son, who I thought was lost to me, has been gracious enough to swallow his pain and his pride and reach out. Can you imagine? Can you imagine what it is to have someone do that for you?”
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“I have never really been an animal person. But I suddenly understood what comfort could be gained from burying your face in the soft pelt of another creature, the consolation of the many small tasks that you're obliged to perform for its welfare.”
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“...do not let whatever happened with that foolish family next door dim your light. You are a courageous, gorgeous, tremendously kind little creature and I shall be forever grateful that their loss has been my gain. Thank you.”
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“I was living in a city whose rules I didn't entirely understand, with no permanent address, and I had failed in pretty much every job I had ever held.”
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“I tried to think about what I really wanted, rather than what everyone else seemed to want for me. I thought about what Will had really been telling me鈥攏ot to live some vicarious idea of a full life but to live my own dream. The problem was, I don't think I'd ever really worked out what that dream was.”
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“I have to tell you it made me so bloody glad that I wanted to shout like a crazy person and do a dance, but I'm crap at dancing and I had nobody to talk to so I went and let the hens out and sat on the step and told them instead (they were not massively impressed. But what do they know?).”
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“And, gradually, I let him know what it meant to me to have him in my life again, his voice in my ear in the small hours, the knowledge that I meant something to him. The sense of him as a physical presence, despite the miles that separated us.”
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“When people we love die young it's a nudge, reminding us that we shouldn't take any of it for granted, that we have a duty to make the most of what we have. I feel like I finally get that.”
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“Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all.”
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“There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be. Once, my life was destined to be measured out in the most ordinary of steps.”
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“I was Louisa Clark from New York or Louisa Clark from Stortfold. Or there might be a whole other Louisa I hadn't met yet.”
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“I thought of how in less than twelve months I had survived homelessness and joblessness in one of the toughest cities on earth.”
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“A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.”
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