Quotes from Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Just live well. Just live

I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Alors voilà, nous y sommes. Tu es gravée dans mon coeur, Clark. Tu l'as été dès le premier jour où tu es arrivée avec tes fringues à la con, tes blagues moisies et ton incapacité absolue à dissimuler ce que tu ressens. Tu as changé ma vie infiniment plus que cet argent ne pourra changer la tienne.

I know my son." "Our son." "Yes. Our son." More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.

Prefiero estar contigo, incluso con ese tú que a ti te parece tan poca cosa, antes que con cualquier otra persona en el mundo.

Que seas exigente contigo misma. Que no te conformes. Viste con orgullo esos leotardos a rayas.

Le conté una historia de dos personas. Dos personas que no deberían haberse conocido, y que al principio no se caían demasiado bien pero descubrieron que eran las únicas dos personas en el mundo que podrían comprenderse.

I guess the best thing you can do is just be there. You don't have to think her's right. But you do have to be there.

I am not designed to exist in this thing- and yet for all intents and purposes it is now the thing that defines me. It is the only thing that defines me.

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.