Top 400 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Too many people follow their own happiness without a thought for the damage they leave in their wake.”

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152. “I was twenty-six years old and I wasn’t really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn’t look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.”

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153. “No, it was the livid red lines scoring Will’s wrists, the long, jagged scars that couldn’t be disguised, no matter how swiftly Nathan pulled down Will’s sleeves.”

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154. “You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?” Margery said finally. “Ain’t the hurt. It’s that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them period. It’s when you realize they can always shut you up with a fist. Just like that.” She mulled over it for a Monet, then straightened up, and flashed Alice a tight smile. “Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder.”

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155. “Sometimes it took only a few words of faith to reilluminate a spark of confidence that the future could be something wonderful, instead of a relentless series of obstacles and disappointments.”

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156. “Ellie’s head sinks into her hands, and she weeps for the unknown Boot, for Jennifer, for chances missed and a life wasted. She cries for herself, because nobody will ever love her like he loved Jennifer, and because she suspects that she is spoiling what might have been a perfectly good, if ordinary, life. She cries because she is drunk and in her flat and there are few advantages to living on your own except being able to sob uninhibitedly at will.”

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157. “I think she loves me. But she loves herself more. Or how could she do what she does?”

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158. “Do you know something?” I could have looked at his face all night. The way his eyes wrinkled at the corners. That place where his neck met his shoulder. “What?” “Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”

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159. “I hope the coffee is good and strong and the croissants fresh and that the weather is still sunny.”

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160. “I’m not letting go of you.”

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161. “Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”

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162. “So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. You think it’s just the catastrophic life-changing event that you’re going to have to deal with: the flashbacks, the sleepless nights, the endless running over events in your head, asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, whether you could have changed things, had you done it even a degree differently.”

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163. “I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.”

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164. “I tuned out, and watched the other people in the pub, wondering about their lives. Each of them would have huge events in their own families – babies loved and lost, dark secrets, great joys and tragedies. If they could put it into perspective, if they could just enjoy a sunny evening in a pub garden, then surely I should too. And.”

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165. “Women always have to make the difficult choices.”

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166. “Best before: 19 March 2007.”

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167. “I had liked men, sure, and wanted to sleep with them, but sometimes I wondered if I was missing some sensitivity chip. I couldn’t imagine crying over anyone I’d been with.”

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168. “MOVING ON means we have to protect ourseves.”

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169. “I thought of Patrick and the multitude of certificates on the wall of his apartment, and wondered at the male need to display achievements, like a peacock permanently shimmering his tail.”

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170. “She didn’t talk about it: if this past year has taught her one thing, it is to live in the present. She immersed herself in every moment, refusing to cloud it by considering the cost. The fall would come – it always did – but she usually collected enough memories to cushion it a little.”

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171. “Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance?”

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172. “She didn’t want to end up like some girls from her school, exhausted and pushing prams in their mid-twenties, financially dependent on husbands they seemed to despise.”

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173. “Perhaps we all harbor a perverse need to get close to things that might destroy us.”

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174. “Doesn’t matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant – you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun. The.”

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175. “Marveling at the 180 degree swings of life in general.”

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176. “Time flew. And each ended the night full and happy with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has been understood by somebody else. And that there might just be someone out there, who will only ever see the best in you.”

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177. “When you work hard to get somewhere, it’s quite nice to show people where you belong.”

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178. “You’re having another unnervingly quiet day. What happened to ‘chatty to the point of vaguely irritating’?”

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179. “Louisa Clark had become, although neither of us said it, our only chance of keeping him alive.”

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180. “And there is the bare truth of it, for her and all the women around here. Doesn’t matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant – you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.”

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181. “Every act has a consequence. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.”

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182. “This is the story of a family who didn’t fit in. A little girl who was a bit geeky and liked maths more than makeup. And a boy who liked makeup and didn’t fit into any tribes.”

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183. “To be the recipient of such hate, without the prospect of a word of comfort from those who loved you. The way Margery had isolated herself made Alice want to weep. It was like an animal that deliberately takes itself off somewhere solitary before it dies.”

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184. “As if something’s missing. I feel as if there’s some puzzle to which I don’t hold all the pieces. Does that sound terribly silly?”

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185. “Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.”

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186. “But if we don’t have faith that he can feel better, even get better, then how is he supposed to keep the faith that good things might happen?” Nathan.”

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187. “The most enjoyable element of Kentucky society, she observed, was the endless stories: the misfortunes of families, gossip about neighbors – every anecdote served up beautifully formed and with a punch-line that would leave the table rocking with laughter. If there was more than one raconteur at the table it would swiftly become a competitive sport.”

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188. “There is nothing more disconcerting to passers-by than to see a man in a wheelchair pleading with a woman who is meant to be looking after him. It’s apparently not really the done thing to be angry with your disabled charge. Especially.”

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189. “He talked to her in the way that people tell lifelong secrets to fellow passengers in railway carriages: an unburdened intimacy, resting on the unspoken understanding that they were unlikely to meet again.”

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190. “I felt something rise inside me then, a feeling of joy and anticipation so great that it seemed as if this world had briefly stopped turning, like there was just me and the universe and a million good things that could happen if you only hung on in there.”

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191. “Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?”

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192. “There is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.”

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193. “Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else.”

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194. “Sometimes it even seemed like a relief to him that there was someone prepared to be rude to him, to contradict him or tell him he was being horrible.”

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195. “You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.”

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196. “I can tell you the exact day I stopped being fearless.”

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197. “I would show him the hotel brochure, but.”

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198. “My voice, when it emerged, cracked a little. “I’m not in love with a ghost.”

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199. “It’s always the kindnesses that finish you off.”

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200. “Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?”

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