631 Quotes by Jojo Moyes

I sang in the shower, lay awake dreaming. I wore my old dresses, my brightly colored cardigans and my satin pumps, and let myself be enclosed in a bubble of happiness, conscious that bubbles only ever existed for so long before they popped anyway.

It was not, they observed with exquisite understatement, a cry for help.

Do I mind? No! Because that’s the way he is. He’s a human being! Nose hair and all!

It’s not the bloody carrots that upset me. It’s having them sneaked into my food by a madwoman who addresses the cutlery as Mr and Mrs Fork.

You get to see the world in a whole new way. And then you have that beautiful picture burned onto the inside of your head. To carry it wherever you go and never forget it.

These are the things I learned about being a parent, while not actually being a parent. That whatever you did you would probably be wrong. If you were cruel or dismissive or neglectful, you would leave scars upon your charge.

I had mistaken feeling for feeling unhappy.

In his hours alone, his mind wandered to a million possible outcomes, and he marveled at how long it had been since he had felt so preoccupied by a woman. It was because she was that rare thing, genuinely unobtainable. He should have given up days ago.

You and I could no more not love each other than the earth could stop circling the sun.