Quotes from Jojo Moyes

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm.

You beat a horse and you can break it all right. You can make it submit. But it'll never forget. And it sure as hell won't care for you. So if I wouldn't do it to a horse, I could never work out why I should do it to a human.

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. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour

There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home but it can stretch to 180 if you aren't in a hurry, like maybe if you're wearing platform shoes.

But I'm a single mother,' she'd said. 'And, worse, I don't do flirting. I wouldn't know how to flirt with someone if Louisa stood behind them holding up placards. And

Solo tenemos una vida y tenemos la obligación de vivirla al máximo.

Margery experienced a brief moment of pure love for the people she had grown uo alongside, those who would not see a man-- or a mule-- struggle alone

See, now you're saying a nice thing and yet somehow it sounds like a bad thing.' 'Not bad,' he said, 'Just...different.

But it's quite hard not to feel a bit deficient in the Department of Brain Cells.

don't do flirting. I wouldn't know how to flirt with someone if Louisa stood behind them holding up placards. And

we who traveled far from home would always have our hearts in two places.

Alice tried not to think too hard about the previous evening. She had once been told by her favorite aunt that the best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard,

I'm going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—

It's a bit weird, constantly being compared to someone you've never met.

I would think about myself for a change. I would let myself heal.

Soy más fuerte de lo que aparento y preparo unos tés alucinantes. No hay muchas cosas que no arregle una buena taza de té.

things will be hard but once you get past the hard part, it will get easier

away with the flat of her

You have to take your chances when you can.

The answer pinged back within seconds. I smiled. How did girls that age type so quickly when they did everything else so slowly?

Sigue adelante... no te conformes, simplemente vive.

Mmm.' She was thinking. My sister actually has a 'thinking face'. It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.

I knew better than anyone how sometimes you just needed to be allowed to feel sad.

I just...can't bear the thought of you staying around here forever. He swallowed. You're too bright. Too interesting. He looked away from me. You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.