Quotes from Jo Jo Moyes

all I could think was how strange it was that it was a messed-up child who barely knew herself who actually had so much to teach me about the business of living. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall. It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.