Top 450 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I often ordered chips, just so that I could watch them all pretend they didn’t want one.”

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252. “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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253. “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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254. “Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry.”

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

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256. “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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257. “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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258. “And when it came down to it, what was the point in re-examining your sadness all the time anyway?”

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259. “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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260. “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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261. “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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262. “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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263. “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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264. “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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265. “He dropped his head and kissed her. He kisses her and it was a kiss of utter certainty, the kind of kiss during which monarchs die and whole continents fall without your even noticing.”

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “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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269. “He talked to her in the way that people tell lifelong secrets to fellow passengers in railway carriages.”

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270. “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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271. “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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272. “Everyone I knew hated Monday mornings, but I never minded them.”

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

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

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275. “The difference between growing up like me and growing up like Will was that he wore his sense of entitlement lightly. I think if you grow up as he had done, with wealthy parents, in a nice house, if you go to good schools and nice restaurants as a matter of course, you probably just have this sense that good things will fall into place, that your position in the world is naturally an elevated one.”

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

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

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279. “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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280. “This is where any sensible person pulls together the remnants of their self-respect, announces that they deserve more, and walks off to find someone who can give them a whole self, not snatched lunchtimes and haunted, empty evenings.”

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281. “They called each other “baby” so often that I occasionally wondered if they had forgotten each other’s names.”

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282. “Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?”

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283. “I turned away, unexpectedly afraid to look at him. I was afraid of what he might be feeling, the depth of his loss, the extent of his fears. Will Traynor’s life had been so far beyond the experiences of mine. Who was I to tell him how he should want to live it?”

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284. “I thought how lucky you might be to find not one but two extraordinary men to love – and what a fluke it was if they happened to love you back.”

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285. “It had been years before she could view anybody else’s happiness without mourning the loss of her own.”

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286. “Across Manhattan the sun glowed orange, the endless sea of glittering skyscrapers reflecting back a peach light, the centre of the world, going about its business. A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.”

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287. “It’s quite hard to stay calm and understanding when you see the same faces, the same mistakes made again and again.”

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288. “Who says you failed?” Dad stroked her hair back from her face. His expression was tender. “I’m just thinking of what I know about Will Traynor, what I know about men like him. And I’ll say one thing to you. I’m not sure anyone in the world was ever going to persuade that man once he’d set his mind to something. He’s who he is. You can’t make people change who they are.”

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289. “Margaret laughed. “Sure thing. Sorry, Ave. I’ll go and get the tea.” Ave. If Avice had been feeling less awful, she would have corrected her: there was nothing worse than an abbreviated name.”

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

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292. “I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn’t even known I had been asking.”

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293. “Then he told her, in the quiet tones of someone offloading a confession, that she was the most mazing women he had ever met. And when she lifted her swollen eyes to his, Ed mopped her bleeding nose, and he dropped his lips gently onto hers, and he did what he had wanted to do for the past forty-eight hours, even if he had been initially too dumb to know it, He kissed her.”

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294. “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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295. “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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296. “If he has love, he will feel he can go on. Without it, I would have sunk many times over.”

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297. “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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298. “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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299. “You shut down a library Louisa, you don’t just shut down a building, you shut down hope.”

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300. “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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