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- Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
- I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like…
- There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere…
- a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain…
- I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache.…
- Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion…
- I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to…
- I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me.…
- It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll…
- There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really strange colour and…
- I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
- Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the…
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