Quotes from Jojo Moyes

the Christmas displays began to creep into the shopfronts, like a gaudy, glittering rash.

Du machst mich glücklich, auch wenn du unausstehlich bist. - Ein ganzes halbes Jahr

I'll tell you something about being married five times. Or married five times and still friends with my three surviving ex-husbands. It teaches you damn all about love." Paul begins to smile, but she hasn't finished. Her grip on his arm is surprisingly strong. "What it teaches you, Mr. McCafferty, is that there's a whole lot more to life than winning.

but as for anything else, I wasn't sure I was made of the right ingredients.

Cómo es que tienes derecho a destrozarme la vida pero yo no tengo ningún poder en la tuya?

that no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived. I

Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. • KAREN BLIXEN, Out of Africa

felt oddly ashamed at how little I had really explored New York.

In the meantime, put on some really great shoes with that jacket and a red lipstick and let Simon Stockwell know you're not to be messed with.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black Beauty

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people.

I don't want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…" He swallowed. Even in the half-dark it seemed effortful. "I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

I had passed this house a million times in my life without ever actually properly seeing it.

You...you once told me that the night in the maze didn't have to be the thing that defined me. You said I could choose what it was that defined me. Well, you don't have to let that...that chair define you

Lo besé, respirando el aroma de su piel, sintiendo su suave pelo bajo los dedos y cuando me devolvió el beso todo desapareció y quedamos únicamente Will y yo, en una isla en medio de ninguna parte, bajo miles de estrellas titilantes.

had laughed for a full minute, trying to straighten his face when

You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply … out.

Depression, we had learned in the group, loves a vacuum. Far better to be doing, or at least planning. Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

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, Louise, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope.

She seemed weary, as if she had uttered the same words many times that day already.

You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?" The assistant shrugs. "Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.

I didn't like the thought of being watched all the time.

He feels a brief pang that something so major has happened in her life without him knowing.

Solo... quiero ser un hombre que ha ido a un concierto con una chica vestida de rojo.