Quotes from Jojo Moyes

tried to make it sound like a positive career choice rather than a cry for help.

So what? So we sit there and do nothing every day in case we have an accident? Is that really how to live?

She felt the sun on her skin, heard birdsong over people talking, revving cars, smelled petrol fumes and hot pastry, and the words echoed through her head, unbidden: this is what happiness feels like.

That's what he was asking me to extinguish—the small child as well as the man—all that love, all that history.

For as a rule, the most ambitious horses are the highest mettled.

self-possessed, someone who understood that appearances were, if not everything, at least the foundation of something.

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.

How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you

that no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

Just because they're wealthy doesn't make them better parents.

I got the feeling there was going to be a whole lot more conversation once I was out of the room.

How many of the decisions you make each day are because you actually want to do something, and how many are to avoid the consequences of not doing it?

den Duft durch ihr Haar ein und lässt sich ablenken, als sie ihm die Arme um den Nacken legt und ihn zu sich herunterzieht. «Fahren wir dieses Wochenende wirklich zusammen weg?» Widerstrebend macht er sich von ihr los. «Kommt darauf an, wie der Deal läuft. Zurzeit hängt alles ein bisschen in der Luft. Es kann immer noch sein, dass ich nach New York

She was not supermodel beautiful, but there was something compelling about her smile.

found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And

He had the kind of face that became instantly invisible in crowds.

The only thing holding me back was myself.

I didn't say much; my head was still ringing with the music, and I didn't want it to fade.

I'm fine," she said, wondering how you could say something so patently true yet untrue at the same time.

He's a singular person, Will. From the time he hit adolescence, I always had to fight the feeling that in his eyes I had somehow done something wrong. I've never been quite sure what it was.

The other was, simply, that I didn't really have an appetite for spending.

I'm so very glad to know you. You've changed everything so much simply by existing.

nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.