Quotes from Jojo Moyes

Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all.

It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone. I felt like she was on the path to being someone I wasn't quite sure of. I felt, weirdly, as if I were being left behind.

I keep saying the words. Sometimes I think I dreamed it.

Because we are a team. And a team sticks together." Izzy lifted her chin. "We are the Baileyville packhorse librarians and we stick together." Beth punched her lightly on the arm as her horse moved forward. "Well, goddamn to that.

For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by an invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.

there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.

Congratulations,' I said, indicating her belly. I wanted to say something else, but I could never work out whether it was appropriate to say a heavily pregnant woman was 'large', 'not large', 'neat', 'blooming', or any of the other euphemisms people seemed to use to disguise what they wanted to say, which was essentially along the lines of Bloody hell.

A lucky few know their purpose in life from an early age. They recognise in themselves a vocation, whether it be religion, art, storytelling or the spearing of sacred cows.

She looked me up and down as she had when we'd first met, as if my own wardrobe had failed some invisible test.

The morning of the wedding dawned bright and balmy, as I had secretly known it would. Girls like Alicia always got their way.

For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.

Mr Traynor's a nice man. And I wouldn't have brought you here if I thought it wouldn't go well.' 'If he doesn't like me, can we just leave? Like, really quickly?' 'Of course.' 'I'll know. Just from how he looks at me.' 'We'll skid out on two wheels if necessary.

Maybe that's the thing we need to understand. Some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists, that's all we can really ask for.

And yet something—perhaps an English predisposition not to appear rude, not to make a fuss, even if it does end up in your untimely murder—propels her forward.

just wanted to get him out of the house and thinking about something else." I

There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be. Once, my life was destined to be measured out in the most ordinary of steps.

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school.

He had the ability to twist almost anything I said or did so that I seemed stupid. During

You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world. - Luisa

Zinu, ka neviens nevar dab?t visu, un m?s, imigranti, to zin?m lab?k par citiem. Kad cilv?ks pamet savu zemi, vi?š st?v ar katru k?ju cit? viet?. Sirds saš?e?as uz pus?m, un viena pus?te allaž tiecas p?c otras. T? ir cena, kas mums j?maks? par to, kas esam.

Dibujé el mundo que él había creado para mí, lleno de maravillas y posibilidades. Le hice saber que una herida había sido curada de un modo que él no podría ni imaginar, y solo por eso siempre habría una parte de mí que le estaría agradecida.

Directly above the starboard engine room, it was also in a state of almost constant vibration, the noise juddering away below their feet with an awesome, leviathan constancy.

A menudo pienso que la habilidad de ganarse el sustento haciendo algo que a uno le encanta debe de ser uno de los mejores regalos que puede ofrecer la vida.

Last time I looked, God gave 'em two arms and two legs, just like the men.' - Miss O'Hare