Quotes from Jojo Moyes

A veces, Clark, tú eres la única razón que tengo para levantarme por las mañanas.

Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you're my chance? What if you are the thing that's actually going to make me happiest?

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

I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing going on.

Best before: 19 March 2007

I had a choice. I was Louisa Clark from New York or Louisa Clark from Stortfold. Or there might be a whole other Louisa I hadn't yet met. The key was making sure that anyone you allowed to walk beside you didn't get to decide which you were, and pin you down like a butterfly in a case. The key was to know that you could always somehow find a way to reinvent yourself again.

There is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

Know first who you are and then adore yourself accordingly.

If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.

Challenge yourself a bit.

I swallowed. "Mum, you're not going to get divorced, are you?" Her eyes shot open. "Divorced? I'm a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don't divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity." She waited just for a moment, and then she started to laugh.

The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or… basically, sometimes you just have to keep going.

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had

She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

I'm still a doughnut, okay?" I said. "I want to be a bun. I really do. But I'm still a doughnut.

Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

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' 'You make it sound so simple.' 'It is simple,' he said. 'The thing is, it's also a lot of hard work. And people don't want to put in a lot of work.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.