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Jojo Moyes Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“If someone wanted to be with you, after all, they just made it happen.”
— Jojo Moyes, The One Plus One
Tagged: romance
“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One: A Novel
Tagged: Friendship
“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Tagged: People, Life, Family
“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Regret, Life, Memory
“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Human Connection, intense, Feelings, Moments, Life
“The ability to earn a living by doing the thing one loves must be one of life’s greatest gifts.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Life, Success, accomplishments, Earning a living, Doing What You Love
“Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren’t all destined to leave a trail of damage.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Damage, Life, hurt
“It was indeed a gift to have someone to love.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Gift, Love
“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
— Jojo Moyes, After You: A Novel
Tagged: definition, Personality, Past
“Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: actions, Words and Actions, emotions, Deep Thoughts
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You: A Novel (Movie Tie-In)
Tagged: Life, Living, Living Fully
“...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Love, Fate, Understanding, Relationships
“Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance? What if you are the thing that’s actually going to make me happiest?”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Life, chances, Happiness
“I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Happy, Love, Giving
“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”
— Jojo Moyes, After You: A Novel
Tagged: Loss, Death, Pain, Empty
“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Love, Confidence, Self-Love, beauty
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”
— Jojo Moyes, After You: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Death, breakup
“He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Smell, Inhaling, Love, Deep
“I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Love, Silence
“Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Sister Love, Fight, Mercy, vulnerability
“If someone likes you, they will stay with you; if they don’t like you enough to stay with you, they aren’t worth being with anyway.”
— Jojo Moyes, Still Me: A Novel
Tagged: Staying, Leaving, H4D-52
“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Love, Understanding, Finding Love
“I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Writing, Beautiful Writing, Love, Kissing
“I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You: A Novel (Movie Tie-In)
Tagged: Love, Dating, Fear, Life
“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Mistakes, Living, Defining You
“She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.”
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Tagged: Tired, Smile, Faking it
“We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.”
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Tagged: Mistakes, Lessons Learned, punishment, Life
“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Tagged: I Love You Mom, Motherhood, Protection, Love, Unconditional Love, Pain
“I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You: A Novel (Movie Tie-In)
Tagged: Kissing, Love
“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You: A Novel (Movie Tie-In)
Tagged: Life, Living Fully, Don't Settle
“You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: help, Self-Help, Life
“Knowledge is power.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Knowledge, Power
“The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”
— Jojo Moyes, After You: A Novel
Tagged: Future, Moving Forward, Effort
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Love, Dating, realtionships
“Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: live, Don't Settle, Push Yourself, Live Boldly
“Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Sexism, feminism, Rape Culture, Fashion, Gender Wars, Girl Power, Perspective
“The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Moving On, Life
“Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Taking time, Patience, Life, Success
“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Grief, Sad, expression, Crying, Life, Heartbreak
“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more.
It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It’s just something you learn to accommodate.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Death, Loss, Living, Moving On, Losing A Loved One, dead
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