Quotes from Jojo Moyes

There is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Just live well. Just live.

I thought of my mother, a woman so molded by looking after other people that she no longer knew what to do when she was freed.

I don't want to make polite conversation with neighbours, to explain myself. I don't want to be judged for what I did.

They exchanged a look, then slapped each other on the shoulder, in the way near-silent men have of conveying emotion...

How could you make a home in a place that had come to you for all the wrong reasons?

I just . . . want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

his life was no longer on some predestined course, but had been diverted by fantastic possibility.

For those few minutes, my mouth full of unfamiliar food, my eyes filled with strange sights, I existed only in the moment. I was fully present, my senses alive, my whole being open to receive the new experiences around me. I was in the only place in the world I could possibly be.

You´re my son, Ed. You might be idiotic and irresponsible, but it doesn´t make the slightest difference to what I feel for you. I´m pissed off that you could have thought it would

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?' My

Esa misma cara resplandecería de alegría en cuanto cruzara la meta, como si solo lograse alcanzar las alturas sumiéndose primero en los abismos personales más insondables.

Mums are allowed to smell of wine when they're sort of on holiday.

I'm not, like, some mass murderer,' said Natasha. 'You're making it sound like I'm out there slaughtering everyone's reincarnated husbands.

When he saw me, his smile was sudden and infectious and made me briefly glad that someone uncomplicated was pleased to see me in a world that felt impossibly messy.

On evenings like this, when the streets below were filled with couples strolling, and laughing people spilled out of pubs, already planning meals, nights out, trips to clubs, something ached inside me; something

Qué fue lo mas difícil? - ¿Perdone? - De trabajar con William Traynor. - Dejarlo ir.

No sabía que la música era capaz de abrir puertas dentro de uno mismo, de transportarte a un lugar que ni el compositor había previsto. Dejaba huellas en el aire alrededor de nosotros, como si arrastráramos su estela allá donde fuéramos.

block three times in search of a suitable parking space. We got there, and almost before I had closed the door behind him he said all the work was terrible. I

infidelity. They ended because the

The problem with getting older was not so much that one got stuck on the past, Vivi often thought, but that there was so much more of the past to get lost in.

you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. You changed my life so much more than this money will ever change yours.

And it would make me feel as if I were finally doing something, moving forward.

Averigüe qué me haría feliz y averigüe que quería hacer, y me forme para el trabajo que haría posible esas dos cosas. - Tal como lo dices, parece muy sencillo. - Es sencillo -dijo-. Pero lo cierto es que también supone un grandísimo esfuerzo. Y la gente no está dispuesta a hacer este tipo de sacrificio.

But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.