Top 29 J.P. Delaney Quotes
#1. Never apologize for someone you love, he says quietly. It makes you look like a prick.
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#2. But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We both know it. Now I know your worst secrets and you know mine. Isn't that what you've always wanted? For us to be completely honest with each other?
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#3. But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.
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#4. Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness - these are the only things that are real.
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#5. But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.
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#6. But it never really occurred to me to ask myself whether this was what I wanted too,
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#7. That was Emma - she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power.
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#8. Grief, I discovered, feels not so very different from defeat. And
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#9. I'll tell you something that was unusual, though. When most people are caught lying to the police, they cave in pretty quickly. Emma's response was to tell another lie. It might have been planted in her head by her brief, but even so that's not a common reaction.
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#10. I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.
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#11. I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters in this drama. Emma Matthews and the men who loved her, who became obsessed with her. They're not important to us now.
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#12. You say just, Ellis says flatly. There is no just with Edward Monkford. Nothing's more important to him than getting his own way.
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#13. People like to talk about clean slates. But the only truly clean slate is a new one. The rest are gray from whatever's been written on them before.
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#14. I don't want anything from you, Edward. If you'd only told me you were still in love with Emma - '
'You don't understand,' he interrupts. 'It was like an illness. I hated myself every second I was with her.
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#15. I know it must look odd, given that I didn't even know Emma. But it seems to me that almost no one really knew her. Everyone I speak to has a different version of what she was like.
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#16. Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.
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#17. One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it.
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#18. Oh, hasn't he told you? The ones before. None of them last, you see. That's the whole point.
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#19. Of course I was already familiar with that saying by Mies van der Rohe, Less is more, but I hadn't appreciated before just how sensual less could be, how rich and voluptuous.
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#20. Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can't be a real smile, not yet, just some passing gas or a random quiver of his lip, but I know she's wrong.
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#21. But I see now that our future lies not in building beautiful havens from the ugliness in society, but in building a different kind of society. He
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#22. All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me?
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#23. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.
I take a deep breath and pick up my pen.
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#25. We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.
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#26. The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. But there's no doubting he's an extreme controller. What happens when a controller comes up against someone who's out of control? The combination could be explosive.
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#27. There was a mountain of grief to be climbed, and no amount of talk would help me up it.
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#28. If I'd been asked to make a list of what I could do without, I'd never have managed it. But by putting the thought in my head that really none of it's important, I find myself wondering if I can't just shed all my things, my stuff, like an old skin. Maybe
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#29. There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom.
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