Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Me Before You
Lou Clark knows a lot of things. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop, and she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live, and now everything feels small and joyless
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You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.
I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.
Knowledge is power.
Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn…
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.
I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.
I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.
If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.