Quotes from Jojo Moyes

none of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost.

My voice lifted in the little room. "No. You're wrong. You tell me he was in the same place before I came. You tell me he hasn't changed his outlook even a little bit just through me being here." "I can't see inside his head, Lou." "You know I've changed the way he thinks." "No, I know that he will do pretty much anything to make you happy.

she was one of the lucky few who were not deprived by marriage and motherhood of their creativity. Or, more importantly, their passion.

From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone. • DR. MARIE STOPES, Married Love

I had woken after a fitful few hours, struggling to shake off the tangled dreams that had woven themselves through my sleep, and stumbled down the corridor on automatic pilot, a caffeine-seeking zombie.

assertions about men: sleazy, chancing, self-serving, porn-obsessed slackers.

Yes, I handed in my notice. Yes, I know Mum and Dad are not too happy about it. Yes, yes, yes to whatever it is you're going to throw at me.

I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me.

Some mistakes just have greater consequences than others.

given up offering to help, as whatever she had done—peeling, chopping, frying—had

You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they … well, they squash you like a bug.

Outside, the last of the light had long been extinguished. The snow was still falling. Where it caught the porch glow through the window it was bathed in a pale-gold, melancholy light. We sat there in peaceful silence, watching its hypnotic descent.

It's just a few days out of my life.

Es gribu teikt, ka ?sti nezinu, ko j?tu. Ka gribu vi?u, bet baidos. Es nev?los, lai mana laime b?tu atkar?ga no k?da cita, negribu b?t ??lniece tam, ko nesp?ju kontrol?t.

Dear God, but it was too early for this.

veiled insubordination that he

With every mile, real life moved steadily toward them like an encroaching tide: cold, unstoppable.

Everything takes time, Will. And that's something your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your wag almost instantaneously.

She made me feel like a first-class idiot, and consequently I became a first-class idiot around her.

And she's ancient. How old must she be? Twenty-seven? Twenty-eight?

I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure what I was.

How is it you have the right to destroy my life but I'm not allowed a say in yours?

Dažk?rt š?ita, ka m?s visi peldam bezgal?g? skumju j?r?, c?t?gi sl?pjot no citiem, ka vi??i jau š??cas p?ri galvai un ?dens sme?as mut?.

I'm not employed for what I do,' Nathan explained. 'I'm employed for what I can do.