Quotes from Jojo Moyes

what was the point in reexamining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking away at a wound and refusing to let it heal.

Come on. You have to live so that you have something to write about.

But the women in this ballroom looked as if they made their appearance a full-time job.

So, this is it. You are scored on my heart , Clark. You have been since the first day you walked in with your sweet smile and your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. Don't think of me too often, I don't want you getting sad. Just live. I'll be walking beside you every step of the way. Love, Will

I had to make sure that I didn't lose sight of the rest of me.

Você só vive uma vez. É sua obrigação aproveitar a vida da melhor forma possível.

I told him I loved him," she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. "And he just said it wasn't enough." Her eyes were wide and bleak. "How am I supposed to live with that?

I want to tell him then. I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

I don't have a clue what any of that means,' I said. 'Most days I don't either.' He was being charming, of course.

I hope your day was full of good things.

The people of Baileyville were descended from Celts, from Scots and Irish families, who could hold on to resentment until it was dried out like beef jerky, and bearing no resemblance to its original self.

My friends. A motley group, but then most friends are. •

music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.

This is what catastrophe does: it strips away the fluff and the white noise, the should I really and the but what if.

one eye trying to assess the risk of being murdered in my bed.

Il suo corpo era solamente una componente dell'intero pacchetto, una cosa da affrontare a intervalli regolari, prima di tornare alle chiacchere. Credo che fosse diventata la parte meno interessante di Will.

sitting there with a face like a smacked arse, the dinner so charred you could have drawn pictures with it.

He worked for a securities firm, talking to money managers and hedge funds about how best to manage risk. He specialized, he said, in corporate equity and debt.

I managed to turn my anonymous little flat into something that felt, if not quite like a home, vaguely welcoming.

That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.' There was a silence before he spoke again. 'Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

A Will no podía hablarle así, por su puesto (a Will y a mí nunca se nos dio bien conversar de las cosas que de verdad nos importaban), pero quería mostrárselo. Una promesa silenciosa, por así decirlo, de que existía algo más, un futuro más radiante.

Once we were all the same, you know? Now they say I can never know what their problems are. Because I am rich. Somehow I am not allowed to have problems. Or they are strange around me, like I am somehow different person. Like the good things in my life are an insult to others.

Sophia took a seat at the back with the other coloured folk. Alice nodded at her. It felt wrong that she wasn't sitting with them, another example of a world out of kilter.