Top 400 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

— Jojo Moyes

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2. “Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”

— Jojo Moyes

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3. “Just live well. Just live.”

— Jojo Moyes

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4. “You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”

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5. “Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live.”

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6. “I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.”

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7. “You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.”

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8. “I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”

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9. “Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”

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10. “Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.”

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11. “I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.”

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12. “Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.”

— Jojo Moyes

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13. “Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”

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14. “Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.”

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15. “I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”

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16. “And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.”

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17. “So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”

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18. “I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.”

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19. “If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.”

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20. “But just as nature abhors a vacuum – so does the human heart.”

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21. “I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”

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22. “We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.”

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23. “Sometimes you need time away to sort things out in your head. It makes everything clearer.”

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24. “There is a whole lot more to life than winning.”

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25. “No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.”

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26. “Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”

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27. “I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen.”

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28. “That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”

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29. “There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.”

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30. “Necesitaba decirle, en silencio, que las cosas cambian, crecen o se marchitan, pero que la vida continua.”

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31. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”

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32. “To have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift.”

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33. “There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life – real life – seems to exist at one remove.”

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34. “Don’t think of me too often... Just live well. Just live.”

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35. “Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.”

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36. “The Giver of Stars by Amy Lowell Hold your soul open for my welcoming. Let the quiet of your spirit bathe me With its clear and rippled coolness, That, loose-limbed and weary, I find rest, Outstretched upon your peace, as on a bed of ivory.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?”

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39. “There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “Avrei potuto guardare nei suoi occhi per sempre.”

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42. “Remember, good things happen.”

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

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44. “Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride.”

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45. “But if you cannot change your situation, then you have no choice. You can only change how you think about it.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury.”

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48. “Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.”

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49. “Well, you’re a lucky man,” Will said, as Nathan began to steer him out. “She certainly gives a good bed bath.”

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50. “I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

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