Top 450 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “She’d read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.”

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

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255. “If he has love, he will feel he can go on. Without it, I would have sunk many times over.”

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256. “I’m not saying she wasn’t wrong to do it. I’m just saying maybe that one moment shouldn’t be the whole thing that defines her. Or your relationship with her.”

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257. “That’s the thing you don’t know about children unless you have them – bath time, Lego, and fish fingers don’t allow you to dwell on tragedy for too long.”

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258. “Tanzie knew Nicky was thinking what she was thinking – that Mum had finally gone mad. But she had read somewhere that mad people were like sleepwalkers – it was best not to disturb them. So she nodded really slowly, like this was all making good sense.”

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259. “He talked to her in the way that people tell lifelong secrets to fellow passengers in railway carriages.”

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260. “I wanted to live as Edouard did, joyfully, sucking the marrow out of every moment and singing because it tasted so good.”

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261. “I don’t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else’s, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.”

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262. “She gave me another hard look, the kind that can only travel from mother to daughter.”

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

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

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265. “Please. Come on. Right here, on the bed. Right next to me.”

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266. “I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.”

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267. “I had never had to consider what I said; talking to him was as effortless as breathing.”

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268. “With that kiss, I tried to tell him the enormity of what he meant to me. I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn’t even known I had been asking. I tried to thank him for wanting me to be me, more than he wanted to make me stay.”

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

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270. “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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271. “Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder.”

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272. “All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn’t share.”

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273. “It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.”

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274. “I often ordered chips, just so that I could watch them all pretend they didn’t want one.”

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275. “But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside. I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn’t even begin to understand.”

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276. “Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry.”

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

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278. “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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279. “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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280. “And when it came down to it, what was the point in re-examining your sadness all the time anyway?”

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281. “The worst thing about working as a caregiver is not what you might think. IT’s not the lifting and cleaning, the medicines and wipes, and the distant but somehow always perceptible smell of disinfectant. IT’s not even the fact that most people assume you’re only doing it because you really aren’t smart enough to do anything else. 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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282. “I don’t think he’ll be able to see you over the radio,” Frances ventured. “But I still want to look nice for him.” Margaret.”

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283. “I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.”

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284. “It was as if a light had gone on: the only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”

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285. “Not everything is black and white. Much as we would like it to be.”

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286. “I don’t know what I think. All I know is that most of the time, I would rather be with him that anyone else I know.”

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287. “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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288. “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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289. “What are you saying?” He fought to keep his voice under control. “You love me but there’s no hope for us?”

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290. “How could I convey the way those short months had changed the way I felt about everything? The way he had skewed my world so totally that is made no sense without him.”

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291. “The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.”

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292. “More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.”

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293. “Here’s the thing about middle-class people. They pretend not to look, but they do. They’re too polite to actually stare. Instead, they do this weird thing of catching sight of Will in their field of vision and then determinedly not looking at him. Until he’s gone past, at which point their gaze flickers toward him, even while they remain in conversation with someone else. They won’t talk about him, though. Because that would be rude.”

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294. “You shut down a library Louisa, you don’t just shut down a building, you shut down hope.”

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295. “I had put on a bright yellow T-shirt in the hope that it would make me look happier than I felt.”

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296. “She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.”

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297. “Will and I had been to each other, the way I felt that no person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again.”

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298. “I looked at Will and I saw the baby I held in my arms, dewily besotted, unable to believe that I had created another human being. I saw the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. That’s what he was asking me to extinguish – the small child as well as the man – all that love, all that history.”

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299. “But surely if you loved someone it was your job to stick with him? To help him through the depression? In sickness and in health, and all that?”

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300. “We see what we want to see, after all, especially when blinded by physical attraction.”

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