Quotes from Jojo Moyes

Sometimes you need time away to sort things out in your head. It makes everything clearer.

I remember staring up at the stars, feeling myself disappear into their infinite depths as the ground gently swayed and lurched around me like the deck of a huge ship.

Tu sei più o meno l'unica cosa che mi fa desiderare di svegliarmi.

You said you were good with people. And you seem to like…theatrical…clothing." He glanced at my tights, which were green and glittery.

Avrei potuto guardare nei suoi occhi per sempre.

sobs that contained the death of dreams and the dread knowledge of months of heartbreak ahead.

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida real) solo existe en otro lugar.

Sei scolpita nel mio cuore, Clark, fin dal primo giorno in cui sei arrivata con i tuoi abiti ridicoli, le tue terribili battute e la tua totale incapacità di nascondere ogni minima sensazione. Tu hai cambiato la mia vita molto più di quanto questo denaro potrà mai cambiare la tua. Non pensare a me troppo spesso. Non voglio pensarti in un mare di lacrime. Vivi bene. Semplicemente vivi. Con amore, Will

Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry.

C'mon Will! Let's give these fuckers something to talk about!" Suggestion on the part of a drunken Lou Clark, rooting for her beloved Will Traynor to advance his motorized wheelchair onto the dance floor, after the wedding ceremony between his former fiancé and his former best friend, while she plops herself onto his lap in her bright red dress and drapes her arms around him, his eyes staring straight at her cleavage!

Marveling at the 180 degree swings of life in general.

Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill." And so I did.

And the New York rich . . . well, they do not live like anyone.

There was only so much news you could digest in one day.

was easy to lose perspective when you'd had no sleep and had been stuck for forty-eight hours with a gastro-intestinally challenged man and a bathroom with deeply inadequate soundproofing.

No, it was the livid red lines scoring Will's wrists, the long, jagged scars that couldn't be disguised, no matter how swiftly Nathan pulled down Will's sleeves.

how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason,

As logic went, it was pretty impressive. I could tell because Mum's mouth was working like someone feeling a loose tooth, but she couldn't come up with any reason why Lily was wrong.

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street.

ha llevado un tiempo encontrar tu camino, nada más.

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

I was so furious, you see, that all around me were things that could move and bend and grow and reproduce, and my son- my vital, charismatic, beautiful boy- was just this thing. Immobile, wilted, bloodied, suffering.

She tries to imagine Carl getting his pubic hair lasered to make sure he was attractive enough for her, and it's so unthinkable she laughs out loud. And now, because she is female and did all the things expected of her, she's been discarded for a younger, supposedly sweeter model.

I wasn't sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.