Quotes from Jojo Moyes

some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.

Quiénes se creen los demás para decidir cómo han de ser nuestras vidas?

I was living in a city whose rules I didn't entirely understand, with no permanent address, and I had failed in pretty much every job I had ever held.

I hadn't slept properly for days and felt half dead, as if the fury and adrenalin that had sustained me had all leached away.

Crees que sabes lo que te espera —una noche horrible delante de la televisión, bebiendo en un bar, escondiéndote de tu pasado— y, de repente, te desvías del camino y acabas en un destino que no sabías que estuviese allí.

I tried to think about what I really wanted, rather than what everyone else seemed to want for me. I thought about what Will had really been telling me—not to live some vicarious idea of a full life but to live my own dream. The problem was, I don't think I'd ever really worked out what that dream was.

Be kind to yourself. You're only human.

I used to think you were going to eat those books, you were so hungry for them. Never knew a girl read so many so fast.

I tried - not because I really had an appetite for genetics - but because I couldn't bear the thought that Will would go on and on at me if I didn't. He was like that now. He was actually a bit of a bully. And, really annoyingly, he would quiz me on how much I had read of something, just to make sure I really had.

The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life – or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window – is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people

She told them everything—about Will and the six-month contract and what had happened when they went to Mauritius. As she spoke, Mum's hands went to her mouth. Granddad looked solemn. The chicken grew cold, the gravy congealing in its boat.

knew from Monsieur Lefèvre's face

I'll be fine. Just one of those days.

I have to tell you it made me so bloody glad that I wanted to shout like a crazy person and do a dance, but I'm crap at dancing and I had nobody to talk to so I went and let the hens out and sat on the step and told them instead (they were not massively impressed. But what do they know?).

Alice had discovered how, for a woman at least, it was much easier to feel anger on behalf of someone you cared about, to access that cold burn, to want to make someone suffer if they had hurt someone you loved. Alice, it turned out, was no longer afraid.

The woman of the mountains leads a difficult life, while the man is lord of the household. Whether he works, visits, or roams through the woods with dog and gun is nobody's business but his own. . . . He is entirely unable to understand any interference in his affairs by society; if he turns his corn into "likker," he is dealing with what is his. • WPA, The WPA Guide to Kentucky

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known as Ward G had been moved back

Eu tinha vinte e seis anos e não sabia muito bem quem era.

Son,' he says as Fabien turns to leave. 'Let her go. Don't take it all so seriously, eh?

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

I had made it as far as the door when he spoke. "I heard you." My hand was outstretched, ready to open the door. I turned. "Last night. When I was bleeding out. I heard you." Our eyes locked. And in that moment everything shifted. I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody's center, his reason for staying. I saw that I could be enough.

If I'm honest, I probably only held it together myself because we couldn't all go to pieces.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.) It