Quotes from Jojo Moyes

Do I mind? No! Because that's the way he is. He's a human being! Nose hair and all!

I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.

It's like he's determined not to see the good in anything.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.

awkward tears or nodding silent

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I know the subtlest movements of the city because I no longer sleep.

Sometimes i still think about when we used to fight and I feel really bad because if I'd known what was going to happen to her, I would have tried to be nice to her every day. I say 'try' because it's quite hard to be nice to someone every day. Even my mum gets on my nerves sometimes but I'm always nice to her because I know she's still sad, and because I'm all she has left.

ALL MY LIFE I'VE ENDED UP LOOKING AFTER PEOPLE, FITTING MYSELF AROUND WHAT THEY NEED, WHAT THEY WANTED.

Agnes's expression was briefly wistful. Then she shrugged. "But on the bright side, they are quite old. Maybe some of them will die soon.

in the midst of that little tableau of insanity, that to have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift.

It's not the bloody carrots that upset me. It's having them sneaked into my food by a madwoman who addresses the cutlery as Mr and Mrs Fork.

Because she knew already that this would be the thing that would end them. And that in the deepest part of her, she had known it from the beginning, like someone stubbornly ignoring a weed growing until it blocked out the light.

I often think that the ability to earn a living by doing the thing one loves must be one of life's greatest gifts.

And there is the bare truth of it, for her and all the women around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.

Everyone should drink champagne on their birthday.

All that really matters is who you love.

More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.

You and I could no more not love each other than the earth could stop circling the sun.

I felt a sudden wave of sympathy for her. It couldn't be easy being my mother.

I'm going to say a Will Traynor thing now." I said it like a warning. "Okay." "There's almost not a day that I'm here when I don't think he'd be proud of me.

Men find it easier to work than to deal with anything else.

She believed me fearless. But nothing frightened me as much as my sister's fears.

You're having another unnervingly quiet day. What happened to 'chatty to the point of vaguely irritating'?