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A face like that affords a different kind of existence, one in which you arrive into every situation with some degree of pre-approval. But you don’t know it, don’t realise that you’re being ushered into the Priority lane of life every single day.
She wonders what that does to a person. There’s an intensity to him, too, something simmering just beneath the surface.
Because this is already the weight of one whole foot on the edge of the minefield and she has no idea how wide it is, how long it will take her to get all the way across, how long it will be before she feels safe and comfortable and secure.
She doesn’t put sugar in her cappuccino, even though she normally does, and she thinks to herself, If this becomes something, I’ll never be able to put sugar in my coffee now.
‘Well, we sent Ant and Dec.’ ‘You did what?’ Since the unit’s two newest members look like Confirmation boys and one of them is called Declan, they’d instantly earned a nickname inspired by the eternally youthful duo of TV presenters.
Ciara can’t imagine how a bunch of drunk people on the country’s drunkest day of the year will figure out how to stay two metres apart, in a pub, but the barman seems confident. She supposes he has to be.
Everything is so much easier when he stays away from other people. The only way you can lose your own shadow is to stand in the dark. The problem is, Oliver hates the dark.
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Lies are spindly, unwieldy things. Delicate filaments, like bundles of nerves in the body. Easy to twist, hard to control, impossible to keep hold of.
Grafton Street, one of the busiest shopping streets in the world, a gauntlet of other people’s swinging shopping bags, buskers and elbows during normal times, empty, is the most disconcerting sight of all. It’s something that was never meant to be seen like this, like when the lights come on in the club at the end of the night.
You can’t erase the past. You can lock it in a box, yeah, but you can’t make it go away
This bloody bitch is going to ruin everything
One footstep off the ledge and now she’s in freefall. Too late to change direction – or her mind. All she can do is try to ensure she doesn’t hit anything on the way down, and has the best possible landing. Even if the odds of surviving the impact are astronomically slim.
She’ll be the full stop at the end of their family’s sentence.
the man who was so traumatised by it all that he tied a rope around the banister outside my childhood bedroom?
Why are you doing this to me?
People think the decisions you make that change the course of your life are the big ones. Marriage proposals. House moves. Job applications. But she knows it’s the little ones, the tiny moments, that really plot the course.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want the most
