Top 400 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You never know what will happen when you fall from a great height.”

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52. “Solo se vive una vez. En realidad, es tu deber que sea una vida plena.”

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53. “Don’t think of me too often. I don’t want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live.”

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54. “Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.”

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55. “Our eyes locked. And in that moment everything shifted. I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody’s center, his reason for staying. I saw that I could be enough.”

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56. “Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.”

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57. “An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.”

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58. “Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let that night be the thing that defines you. You have the choice not to let that happen.”

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59. “That Mack McGuire, he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line.”

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60. “I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”

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61. “Hey Clark’, he said.‘Tell me something good’. I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”

— Jojo Moyes

62. “Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.”

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63. “To Seek Knowledge Is To Expand Your Own Universe.”

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64. “I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”

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65. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

66. “The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life – or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window – is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.”

— Jojo Moyes

67. “Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.”

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68. “If someone likes you, they will stay with you; if they don’t like you enough to stay with you, they aren’t worth being with anyway. You know that. You are a sensible, mature.”

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69. “Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance? What if you are the thing that’s actually going to make me happiest?”

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70. “When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”

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71. “Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.”

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72. “Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”

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73. “She had the world’s worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.”

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74. “It’s almost impossible to feel crap after eating a really great spaghetti bolognese.”

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75. “Some mistakes have greater consequences then others. You don’t have to let one mistake define you.”

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76. “Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”

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77. “Hey Clark,” he said, “Tell me something good.”

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78. “You’ve scored on my heart...”

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79. “But I realised suddenly, in the midst of that little tableau of insanity, that 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. Even if we are not together, to know that, for you, I am that man is a source of sustenance to me.”

— Jojo Moyes

80. “I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.”

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81. “And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.”

— Jojo Moyes

82. “Spring arrived overnight, as if winter, like some unwanted guest, had abruptly shrugged its way into its coat and vanished, without saying good-bye.”

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83. “Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.”

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84. “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a.”

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

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86. “There seems to be something miraculous about seeing the relentless optimism of new growth after the bleakness of winter, a kind of joy in the difference every year, the way nature chooses to show off different parts of the garden to its full advantage.”

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87. “You have to decide to let yourself be happy.”

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88. “You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live.”

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

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90. “I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.”

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91. “You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.”

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92. “I never knew real happiness until you.”

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93. “And when it came down to it, what was the point in reexamining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking away at a wound and refusing to let it heal.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “You and I both know I can do just fine without you. But here’s the thing: I don’t want to.”

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96. “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.”

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97. “But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.”

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98. “I know we can do this. I know it’s not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say in that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine. You make me happy, even when you’re awful, I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.”

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99. “You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.”

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100. “Did I imagine it all? Sometimes I think I’ve made what happened between Will and me so much bigger in my head. Like how can I have loved someone that much in such a short time? And all these things I think about the two of us – did we actually feel what I remember? The further we get from it, the more those six months just seem like this weird... dream.”

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