631 Quotes by Jojo Moyes

I wanted to live as Edouard did, joyfully, sucking the marrow out of every moment and singing because it tasted so good.

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.

As logic went, it was pretty impressive. I could tell because Mum’s mouth was working like someone feeling a loose tooth, but she couldn’t come up with any reason why Lily was wrong.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.

Captain,” she said, “the only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions.

Here’s the thing about middle-class people. They pretend not to look, but they do. They’re too polite to actually stare. Instead, they do this weird thing of catching sight of Will in their field of vision and then determinedly not looking at him. Until he’s gone past, at which point their gaze flickers toward him, even while they remain in conversation with someone else. They won’t talk about him, though. Because that would be rude.

Did I imagine it all? Sometimes I think I’ve made what happened between Will and me so much bigger in my head. Like how can I have loved someone that much in such a short time? And all these things I think about the two of us – did we actually feel what I remember? The further we get from it, the more those six months just seem like this weird... dream.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

I thought how lucky you might be to find not one but two extraordinary men to love – and what a fluke it was if they happened to love you back.