631 Quotes by Jojo Moyes

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.Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

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.

Pasilik sau prabangą žinoti, kad tebeturi kitų galimybių

The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. 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.

Maybe that's the thing we need to understand. Some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists, that's all we can really ask for.

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.