Jojo Moyes Quotes

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.

When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you're my chance?

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark.

You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply... off.

I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

They were like animals, men. They found too much eye contact threatening.

All Chelsea's internet dates were gorgeous. Until she met them.

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

I'm not letting go of you" - Sam

I'm not letting go of you.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

You´re my son, Ed. You might be idiotic and irresponsible, but it doesn´t make the slightest difference to what I feel for you. I´m pissed off that you could have thought it would

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people''Find my people?''Your tribe

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers, ' he said. 'I think that’s kind of the point of them.

Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers, ” he said. “I think that’s kind of the point of them.

I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.

She had the world’s worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove.

Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

He dropped his head and kissed her. He kisses her and it was a kiss of utter certainty, the kind of kiss during which monarchs die and whole continents fall without your even noticing.

Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

You still don’t get it, Clark, do you?’ I couldhear the smile in his voice. ‘It’s not your choice.

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?-Lou

Kind eyes under all the mascara.

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.

You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises.