Quotes from Jojo Moyes

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Just live well. Just live.

We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again. Do even better next time. I know you can.

What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.

She wanted to tell him to go but she couldn't bear it if he did

I think about your sister a lot. I think about Will too. 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.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

Marianne touches his elbow, halting him. 'You know I'll tell you something about being married five times. Or married five times and still friends with my surviving ex-husbands'. She counts them on gnarled fingers. 'That would be three'. He waits. '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 does teach you, Mr McCafferty, is that there's a whole lot more to life than winning.

I . . . I'm not someone who can just . . . leave someone behind.

there's a whole lot more to life than winning.

Do you know how stifling it is to be told you are never going to be able to change? For the rest of your life? Because nobody else wants you to? Do you know how awful it is to feel stuck?

You and I both know I can do just fine without you. But here's the thing: I don't want to.

Some mistakes...just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you. You have the choice not to let that happen.

You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "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?

What are you doing?" "Thinking." "That sounds dangerous.

Not everything is black and white. Much as we would like it to be.

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark.

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.

So I stuck that in the back of my mental filing cabinet too, under the drawer labeled: Unthinkable.

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

To Seek Knowledge Is To Expand Your Own Universe

I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the swirling mess of my thoughts.