Top 400 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

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

— Jojo Moyes

53. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

54. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

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

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56. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

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

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

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60. “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

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

— Jojo Moyes

62. “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

63. “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

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

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66. “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?”

— Jojo Moyes

67. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

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.”

— Jojo Moyes

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

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

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

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

— Jojo Moyes

74. “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

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

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

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77. “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

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

— Jojo Moyes

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

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81. “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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82. “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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83. “You have to decide to let yourself be happy.”

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84. “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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85. “I never knew real happiness until you.”

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86. “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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87. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

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

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

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

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94. “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.”

— Jojo Moyes

95. “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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96. “You’ve scored on my heart...”

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97. “When you looked at me with those limitless, deliquescent eyes of yours, I used to wonder what it was you could possibly see in me. Now I know that is a foolish view of love. You and I could no more not love each other than the earth could stop circling the sun.”

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98. “Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.”

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99. “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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100. “You and I. We are both immigrants. We both know it is hard to find your place in this world. You want to make your life better, work hard in country that is not your own – you make new life, new friends, find new love. You get to become new person! But is never a simple thing, never without cost.”

— Jojo Moyes