631 Quotes by Jojo Moyes

But if we don’t have faith that he can feel better, even get better, then how is he supposed to keep the faith that good things might happen?” Nathan.

Best before: 19 March 2007.

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,’ like you’re being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.

She’s genuine and funny and a bit daft.

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 wi-li-lished I li-li-lived in Molahonkey la-la-land The la-la-land where I-li-li was bo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lorn So I-li-li could play-la-lay my o-lo-lold banjo-lo-lo My o-lo-lold ban-jo-lo-lo won’t go-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo.

I never really cared what anyone thought of me until he came along, ” she said. “And now, I can’t believe it’s me he’s chosen. Every morning I wake up and thank God that he did. Every night I go to bed praying that time will go that much faster so that I can be with him again. I think all the time about what he’s doing, who he’s talking to. Not in a jealous way, or anything. I just want to be closer to him, and if I can imagine what he’s doing, then that helps.

I swallowed. “Mum, you’re not going to get divorced, are you?” Her eyes shot open. “Divorced? I’m a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don’t divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity.” She waited just for a moment, and then she started to laugh.

I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.