Quotes from Jojo Moyes

How many times had she wanted to have this conversation? How many times had she rehearsed all the things she wanted to say to him?

Everything was possible. That was what I had learned, these last few months.

But you can tell so much about someone from what they wear.

I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility. I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn't have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him. And as I spoke I knew these would be the most important words I would ever say and that it was important that they were the right words, that they were not propaganda, an attempt to change his mind, but respectful of what Will had said.

Stiu ca ti-a fost greu. Dar sa stii ca suntem tare mandri de tine. - Pentru ce? se mira ea. - Pentru simplul fapt ca n-ai abandonat. Uneori, fetito, si asta e un gest eroic.

No puedes cambiar a las personas. - ¿Entonces qué puedo hacer? - Amarlas.

too. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. I

en realidad solo podemos ayudar a alguien que quiere ser ayudado —dijo.

I was doing this thing I sometimes do of pretending I'm Treena. She is one of those people who are completely calm and competent, and as a result no one ever messes with her. I sounded, to my own ears, professional and upbeat.

I want to learn. I want to improve myself.

I think people get bored of grief,' said Natasha. 'It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time – six months, maybe – and then they get faintly irritated that you're not "better". It's like you're being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.' 'Yes!

They had been exotic to one another, a suggestion of a different world to two people who were each trapped, in their own way, by the expectations of those around them.

slept at all. I didn't want to think how it would feel, to lie trapped in a bed you couldn't get out of with only dark thoughts to keep you company through the small hours.

Maybe you have to think about all the things about your old life that you didn't enjoy and say, 'Okay, so here is an opportunity to start again. Perfect freedom. No ties. Maybe this is the dream.' Maybe one day you will even be happier than you were.

Le Marais?" "It's a little district in the center of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay.

Time with my family was precious and I wouldn't ruin it by feeling sad.

It's not a church, Josie. And I have an important message." Mum gazed around her. "Bernard. Now is not the-" "And my message is-*these*." My father bent over and with exaggerated care pulled up his trouser legs. First the left then the right. From my position on the other side of the water tank I could see that his shins were pale and faintly blotchy. The rooftop fell silent. Everyone stared. He extended one leg. "Smooth as a baby's backside. Go on, Josie, feel them.

Entonces te voy a contar algo bueno -dijo, y esperó, como si quisiera cerciorarse de que le estaba prestando toda mi atención-, Algunos errores... tienen consecuencias mayores que otros. Pero no dejes que sea esa noche lo que te defina.

Pero Anthony O'Hare es una criatura distinta. Vuelve a limpiar la ventanilla y ve a Jennifer

Uneori viata consta dintr-o serie de obstacole, totul este sa pasesti punand un picior inaintea celuilalt. Uneori, isi da ea seama brusc, e vorba doar de incredere oarba.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

He kissed her and it was a kiss of utter certainty, the kind of kiss during which monarchs die and whole continents fall without your even noticing.

Word is you helped a lot of people.' 'Anyone would have done it.' 'But they didn't.

Life. Sometimes it can be really, really crap, and just as you think it's going to be like that for ever, it changes.