Quotes from Jojo Moyes

Nothing phased Nathan. "It's

What they did not know was that she chafed at the never-endingness of it. No sooner had she cleaned one surface than it was dirty again.

I missed the customers, their company, and the easy chatter that swelled and dipped gently like a benign sea around me.

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and mumbled angrily against the windows. Outside

Pomi?i vlastite granice. Nemoj se skrasiti.

and every day I felt like I was living someone else's life.

Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond.

Porque, aunque todo el mundo te tire piedras, si tu madre te respalda, estás bien.

She sits with her lips almost on his and traces the shape of his face with her fingertips

Kad te netko katapultira u posve nov život ili te bar gurne toliko snažno u tu?i život da se osjetiš kao da ti je lice priljubljeno uz tu?i prozor - prisiljen si ponovo razmisliti o tome tko si. Ili kako te drugi doživljavaju.

I know I shouldn't be but I woke up really happy. I mean, like, really, stupidly happy. Like even though my whole life is a disaster. I just...I feel okay. I look at you, and I feel okay.

Don't give up, Fred,' said Marc. 'It might be that you're looking in the wrong places.

She held his face in her hands and she kissed his jaw and his poor bruised temple, and his lips, and told herself that whatever happened, she would always remember how this felt.

Sometimes the illlusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

No two months had ever left me feeling more inadequate. I was lonely almost all the time. I hated not knowing where I was going to sleep each night, was permanently anxious about train timetables and currency, found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And what could I say about myself, anyway? When people asked me, I could give them only the most cursory details. All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

I realized with mild disappointment that charity could mean something quite different here: that it was not enough to give, you had to be seen to be giving.

grip my arm. I willed the old

I feel like I've turned myself off for the past two years. Like I wouldn't let anyone get close to me because of what happened. I mean, what's the point of getting close to someone if you're only going to lose them? But the other day I started thinking about what I actually want out of life and I realized it was someone to love. Because you got to move on, right? You got to see some kind of future.

Paul has heard stories of wartime brutality more appalling than anything he encountered while working in the NYPD; they are repeated with a clarity of recall that suggests they might have happened yesterday rather than decades ago. He has seen pain borne like a precious inheritance through the ages and writ large on the faces of those left behind.

But, like a creeping tide, the outside world insisted steadily on intruding.

Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy. But you can't buy books if you barely got enough to make rent. So that library is a vital resource! You shut a library, Louisa, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope.

I'd felt flat all day, struggling with the stasis that comes from not having a job to go to, worries about how I was going to pay my bills, and being trapped in an apartment with someone else who similarly had nowhere to go and I was unwilling to leave by herself.