Quotes from Jojo Moyes

studies course, so they can take me for the beginning of the next term." "What about Thomas?" "There's a nursery on campus. We

Pastor, you know you're talking to a room full of happily unmarried women here, right?

none of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost. What we aim to do in our little group is ensure that carrying them is not a burden, something that feels impossible to bear, a weight keeping us stuck in the same place. We want their presence to feel like a gift. "And

If I let myself love you, it would consume me. There would be nothing but you. I would be constantly afraid that you might change your mind. And then, if you did, I would die.

I sent mental voodoo arrows into the back of his had the whole way.

I'm going to end up like my mother. She left it too late to remember who she actually was before she became a wife.

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relationship. She had lost the man she loved.

He was rapt, suddenly unself-conscious. I turned away, unexpectedly afraid to look at him. I was afraid of what he might be feeling, the depth of his loss, the extent of his fears. Will Traynor's life had been so far beyond the experiences of mine. Who was I to tell him how he should want to live it?

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours?

small children and a gray-looking husband (they left the

I felt a little better. I did. I reminded myself of something else Marc had said: 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.

Si tiene un ser amado, se sentirá con fuerzas para seguir adelante. Si no, yo me habría hundido ya muchas veces». Esa

I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you're stuck in one of these, all you have are the places in your memory that you can go to.

fought the waves of sleep that kept threatening to wash over me.

life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated,

I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen.

I heard him and could well imagine what he had been like in those business meetings, the career that had made him rich and arrogant. He was a man who was used to being heard, after all. He couldn't bear it that in some way I had the power to dictate his future, that I had somehow become Mother again. It

I told him something good.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? -Lou

an open-plan office?" "I'm uninhibited.

You never know what will happen, when you fall from a great height.

I sent mental voodoo arrows into the back of his head the whole way.

I looked up through gritty eyes and there it was across the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, shining like a million jagged shards of light, awe-inspiring, glossy, impossibly condensed and beautiful, a sight that was so familiar from television and films that I couldn't quite accept I was seeing it for real.