Top 400 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I believe that when two people are in love, the way that we are in love, the love lasts, whatever else happens.”

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202. “She is one of those people who are completely calm and competent, and as a result no one ever messes with her.”

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203. “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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204. “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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205. “Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?”

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

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

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208. “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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209. “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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210. “Teenagers are basically toddlers with hormones – old enough to want to do stuff without having any of the common sense.”

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

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

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213. “All babies look like currant buns to me.”

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214. “Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you’re staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia’s father’s bill.” And so I did.”

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215. “Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy.”

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216. “So with the loss of my family as well as the man I had loved, every thread that had linked me to who I was had been abruptly cut. I felt as if I had simply floated off, untethered, to some unknown universe.”

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217. “And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words.”

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

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219. “He smiled, the kind of smile that denotes private happiness, the kind where you have nothing to prove.”

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220. “The Kommandant thought about this, as if my answer had satisfied him. “I once wanted to be a painter. I was no good, of course. I had to confront the truth of the matter very early on.” He fingered the stem of his glass. “I often think that the ability to earn a living by doing the thing one loves must be one of life’s greatest gifts.”

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221. “It’s the fact that when you spend all day in proximity to someone, there is no escape from their moods. Or your own.”

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222. “She couldn’t believe losing someone you had known such a short time could feel like losing part of yourself, that it could make food taste wrong and colors seem dull.”

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223. “Very few troubles in life couldn’t be lessened by a nice smile – that was what her mother always said.”

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224. “Who wouldn’t say yes to a handsome, square-jawed man, who looked at her as if she were made of spun silk? Everyone else had spent the past months looking at her as if she were contaminated.”

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225. “There’s only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You LIVE. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.”

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226. “As logic went, it was pretty impressive. I could tell because Mum’s mouth was working like someone feeling a loose tooth, but she couldn’t come up with any reason why Lily was wrong.”

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227. “She was beautiful. As always she looked like she’d meant to head for somewhere else but at the last minute she’d decided to stop by you, as a favor, you understand.”

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228. “Hey, Lou!” she yelled. “I meant to say to you. Moving on doesn’t mean you loved my dad any less, you know. I’m pretty sure even he would tell you that.”

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229. “Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it’s like – you don’t actually want to... You’re in control of your own life. And yet you act like you’re permanently buffeted by events outside your control.”

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230. “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.”

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231. “And finally, my head pressed into the pillow, I cried, because my life suddenly seemed so much darker and more complicated than I could ever have imagined, and I wished I could go back...”

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232. “I’m giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.”

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233. “She believed me fearless. But nothing frightened me as much as my sister’s fears.”

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234. “The conductor stepped up, tapped twice on the rostrum, and a great hush descended. I felt the stillness, the auditorium alive, expectant. Then he brought down his baton and suddenly everything was pure sound. I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.”

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235. “Do you know how stifling it is to be told you are never going to be able to change? For the rest of your life? Because nobody else wants you to? Do you know how awful it is to feel stuck?”

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236. “I saw that pretty much everyone bore the brutal imprint of love, whether it was lost, whipped away from them, or simply vanished into a grave.”

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237. “I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that ‘if only’ is a very dangerous game indeed.”

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238. “Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace.”

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239. “Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers, he said. I think that’s kind of the point of them.”

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240. “Agnes’s expression was briefly wistful. Then she shrugged. “But on the bright side, they are quite old. Maybe some of them will die soon.”

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241. “And when it came down to it, what was the point in re-examining your sadness all the time anyway?”

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242. “Convinced that if she wished hard enough, good things would finally happen.”

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243. “And yet. To commit to Sam was to commit to the likelihood of more loss.”

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244. “We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.”

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245. “Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.”

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246. “Heartbreak was a luxury too costly for the single parent.”

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247. “With Will I had never had to consider what I said; talking to him was as effortless as breathing. Now I was good at not really saying anything about myself at all.”

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248. “A certain kind of man looked at God’s own land, she thought, as she drew closer, and instead of beauty and wonder, all he saw was dollar signs.”

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249. “My skin grew freckled, my nails bleached, and I began to feel a rare happiness at the simple pleasures of existing here – of walking on a beach, eating unfamiliar foods, swimming in warm, clear water where black fish gazed shyly from under volcanic rocks, or watching the sun sink fiery red into the horizon.”

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250. “There was only so much news you could digest in one day.”

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