Top 450 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “She gave me another hard look, the kind that can only travel from mother to daughter.”

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302. “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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303. “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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304. “You could only truly reinvent yourself far from home. On trips to see her parents, she still feels a little stifled by all that communal history.”

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305. “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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306. “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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307. “We see what we want to see, after all, especially when blinded by physical attraction.”

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

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310. “He had a dozen arguments with her before breakfast, and a thousand passionate reconciliations before he went to sleep.”

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311. “I’ve had a very good life, Louisa. I loved my job and I worked with some wonderful people. I traveled to Paris, Milan, Berlin, London, far more than most women my age... I had my beautiful apartment and some excellent friends. You mustn’t worry about me. All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could and we never shall. Women always have to make difficult choices. But there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.”

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312. “You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path.”

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313. “But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all. There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be.”

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

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315. “I never really cared what anyone thought of me until he came along, ” she said. “And now, I can’t believe it’s me he’s chosen. Every morning I wake up and thank God that he did. Every night I go to bed praying that time will go that much faster so that I can be with him again. I think all the time about what he’s doing, who he’s talking to. Not in a jealous way, or anything. I just want to be closer to him, and if I can imagine what he’s doing, then that helps.”

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316. “He will be out there, living his life to the full, when she seems to have put hers perennially on hold.”

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317. “I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. But I knew that already, didn’t I? I had come here and it had cost me dear.”

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318. “I know the subtlest movements of the city because I no longer sleep.”

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319. “We had thought it a little odd, but what did we know? Lou has been peculiar since birth, after all. Mum.”

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320. “We danced as if we had nothing else to do but dance. Lord, it felt good. I had forgotten the joy of just existing, of losing yourself in the music... I let go of everything, my problems floating away like helium balloons: my awful job, my picky boss, my failure to move on. I became a thing, alive, moving, joyful.”

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321. “I hadn’t thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street.”

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322. “None of us lasts forever, do we? If I’m honest, seeing her like that was an unwelcome reminder of my own mortality. Of what I had been. Of what we all must become.”

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323. “She is the only person I know who actually likes exams.”

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324. “I remembered Agnes’s words: that we who traveled far from home would always have our hearts in two places. I placed my hand on the candlewick bedspread. And, finally, I wept.”

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325. “I don’t know. Maybe I just believe in second chances.”

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326. “The men were less interesting to look at, but nearly all had that air about them that I could sometimes detect in Will – of wealth and entitlement, a sense that life would settle itself agreeably around them.”

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327. “She has several imaginary conversations with him and two imaginary arguments.”

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328. “He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it was weirdly seductive.”

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329. “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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330. “And when it came down to it, what was the point in re-examining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking at a wound and refusing to let it heal. I knew what I had been part of. I knew what my role was. What was the point in going over and over it?”

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331. “I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.”

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332. “What am I meant to do with what’s left?”

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333. “Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and.”

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334. “Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy. But you can’t buy books if you barely got enough to make rent. So that library is a vital resource! You shut a library, Louisa, you don’t just shut down a building, you shut down hope.”

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335. “She doesn’t know what to say. She feels quietly furious with him, while conscious that she has no right to be. What has he ever promised her, after all?”

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336. “If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.”

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337. “I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didn’t expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall.”

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338. “And I ordered the cheesecake.”

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339. “Pengetahuan adalah Senjata.”

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340. “You should have been here, Will, I told him silently. It was you she really needed.”

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341. “Dean Martin growled at me, as if in agreement. I was going to say something else but trying to work out which of his eyes was actually looking at me was weirdly distracting.”

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342. “You had to seize the day. You had to embrace opportunities as they came. You had to be the kind of person who said yes.”

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343. “I ache, I rattle with supplements, and my grandchildren cannot believe I have ever been anything but prehistoric.”

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344. “It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.”

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345. “He could be happy, if surrounded by the right people, if allowed to be Will, instead of The Man in the Wheelchair, the list of symptoms, the object of pity. And.”

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346. “Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.”

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347. “He smelled of warm, sleepy male. She had forgotten what a weirdly potent scent that was.”

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348. “Because she knew already that this would be the thing that would end them. And that in the deepest part of her, she had known it from the beginning, like someone stubbornly ignoring a weed growing until it blocked out the light.”

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349. “Do you think they vacuum every day, like we do?”

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350. “I wondered if she knew that everything she said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something she’d actually cultivated deliberately. I didn’t think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.”

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