631 Quotes by Jojo Moyes

If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.

I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.

I know this – nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are.

I rang my parents and told them that I would stay over. My mother sounded relieved. When I told her I was going to get paid for sleeping over, she sounded overjoyed. “Did you hear that, Bernard?” she said, her hand half over the phone. “They’re paying her to sleep now.” I could hear my father’s exclamation. “Praise the Lord. She’s found her dream career.

Louisa, is your life always like this?

Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?

The fact that I am no longer tormented by your proximity, or presented with daily evidence of my inability to have the one thing I truly want, has not healed me. It.

Divorced? I’m a good Catholic girl, Louisa. We don’t divorce. We just make our men suffer for all eternity.

Who says you failed?” Dad stroked her hair back from her face. His expression was tender. “I’m just thinking of what I know about Will Traynor, what I know about men like him. And I’ll say one thing to you. I’m not sure anyone in the world was ever going to persuade that man once he’d set his mind to something. He’s who he is. You can’t make people change who they are.