Quotes from Jojo Moyes

When people we love die young it's a nudge, reminding us that we shouldn't take any of it for granted, that we have a duty to make the most of what we have. I feel like I finally get that.

Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel as if she were drowning.

The sigh Camilla Traynor gave was the sound of someone forced to explain something politely to an imbecile. I wondered if she knew that everything she said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something she'd actually cultivated deliberately. I didn't think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.

I'm not sure I'm doing it very well.

Seeing what she has suffered has made me realize that everyone deserves a second chance, especially if someone out there is willing to give them one, in spite of what they carry with them.

Here is the thing about jealousy. It's not a good look.

Nunca, jamás me arrepentiré de las cosas que he hecho. Porque casi todos los días, si estás atrapado en un cacharro como este, lo único que te queda son los lugares de tus recuerdos que aún puedes visitar.

Everything takes time, Will," she said, placing her hand briefly on his arm. "And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

You shitbag,' I yelled. 'I'm going to kick your stupid marathon-running shins so hard you're going to think 157th was actually a good result.

and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. • LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Little Women

I have no idea when I'll wear it, but I have to have it.

That's how I feel about clothes all the time. They talk to you, right? That dress has been screaming at me: Buy me you idiot! And maybe lay off the potato chips!

about to find out which way my life was about to go next.

Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love.

There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth has gone and shifted under your feet. But you are never trapped, Alice. You hear me? There is always a way around.

Was that the boss you were talking about? That man today?' The wine was delicious. I took another sip. I hadn't dared drink while Lily had been with me: I might have let my guard down. 'Yup.' 'I know the type. If it's any consolation, within five years he'll either have a stomach ulcer or enough hypertension to cause erectile dysfunction.' I laughed. 'Both those thoughts are oddly comforting.

you can only actually help someone who wants to be helped,

You gotta have places where people can meet and talk and exchange ideas and it not just be about money, you know? Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy. But you can't buy books if you barely got enough to make rent. So that library is a vital resource! You shut a library, Louisa, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope.

I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned it to be so much more than he had expected.

she seemed to bounce through life like Tigger; the things that would have felled most people didn't seem to touch her. Or if she did fall, she bounced right back. She fell again, plastered on a smile, dusted herself down and kept going

My stomach turned somersaults.

Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well.

my marriage proved to be somewhat more populated than I had anticipated

Fancy a friendly beer with an exhausted corporate wage slave?