Quotes from Jojo Moyes

when you put someone down all the time, eventually they stopped listening to the sensible stuff.

If someone likes you, they will stay with you; if they don't like you enough to stay with you, they aren't worth being with anyway. You know that.

Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

And I ate the cheesecake.

and I just suddenly thought, Nope. I can't do it. I'm not going to waste a glorious Saturday doing the same thing I've done for thirty years. I'm going to have an adventure.

Across Manhattan the sun glowed orange, the endless sea of glittering skyscrapers reflecting back a peach light, the center of the world, going about its business. A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.

things I learned about being a parent, while not actually being a parent: That whatever you did would probably be wrong.

It was only when I followed Dad into our house and saw the empty chair that I was able to convince myself it was true. I would never see him again, never feel that curved old back under my fingertips as I hugged him, never again make him a cup of tea or interpret his silent words or joke with him about cheating at Sudoku.

I believe that when two people are in love, the way that we are in love, the love lasts, whatever else happens.

I wondered how it would feel to be out there, on your own, in the middle of nowhere.

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

Thank you for their continuing faith and endless support.

You have to decide to let yourself be happy.

Thank you. It was a bit of a surprise, but a very welcome one.

The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably.

mundanity have now taken on the glowing hues of

La clave consistía en asegurarse de que nadie a quien permitieras caminar a tu lado decidiera quién eras y te etiquetara, como a una mariposa en una caja. La clave era saber que siempre podías encontrar de algún modo la forma de volver a reinventarte.

And I ordered the cheesecake.

If women try to get you to read something it's because they fancy you. They want to be in your head. Try to make you think of stuff.

There is nothing more disconcerting to passers-by than to see a man in a wheelchair pleading with a woman who is meant to be looking after him. It's apparently not really the done thing to be angry with your disabled charge. Especially

She didn't want to end up like some girls from her school, exhausted and pushing prams in their mid-twenties, financially dependent on husbands they seemed to despise.

Women always have to make the difficult choices.

It was as if a light had gone on: the only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.

Knowledge is power, Clark