Quotes from Jojo Moyes

I thought of Will telling me if I didn't stop bloody whistling he'd be forced to run me over.

turned to me, told me I should do the

I know this - nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.

I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.

Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .

Oh, Louisa, you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, coloured by what you thought of them.

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen.

right now." If he had been anybody else I might have hugged him just then, but we were English and he had once been my boss of sorts, so we simply smiled awkwardly at each other. And possibly wished we were somewhere else.

It's quite hard to stay calm and understanding when you see the same faces, the same mistakes made again and again.

Dear Clark, This is to show you that I am not an entirely selfish arse. And I do appreciate your efforts. Thank you. Will

Me sentía como mi hermana cuando dio a luz a Thomas. «Es como si mirara por un embudo», me dijo. «El mundo se ha encogido y solo somos él y yo».

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. I

I suppose I hadn't believed in Fate until that point. But it's hard not to [...] when you think that there was no way, across miles, continents, vast ocean, we were meant to see each other again.

I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more." I

It's like I'm looking through a funnel, she had said, gazing at his newborn form. The world has just shrunk to me and him.

He talked to her in the way that people tell lifelong secrets to fellow passengers in railway carriages: an unburdened intimacy, resting on the unspoken understanding that they were unlikely to meet again.

Will spent £120 on a silver picture frame, and a vase that he said was "absolutely vile" for another £60. I

Go out onto the deck and stare at the sky for ten minutes, and remind yourself that ultimately ours is a meaningless and futile existence and that our little planet will probably be swallowed by a black hole, so none of this will have any point anyway.

To be the recipient of such hate, without the prospect of a word of comfort from those who loved you. The way Margery had isolated herself made Alice want to weep. It was like an animal that deliberately takes itself off somewhere solitary before it dies.

Louisa Clark had become, although neither of us said it, our only chance of keeping him alive.

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in."- Will Traynor

Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?