Top 400 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “They called each other “baby” so often that I occasionally wondered if they had forgotten each other’s names.”

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

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “It had been years before she could view anybody else’s happiness without mourning the loss of her own.”

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307. “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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308. “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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309. “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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310. “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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311. “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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312. “Not everything is black and white. Much as we would like it to be.”

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313. “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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314. “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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315. “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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316. “He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it was weirdly seductive.”

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

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318. “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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319. “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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320. “I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.”

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

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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “And I ordered the cheesecake.”

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327. “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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328. “Pengetahuan adalah Senjata.”

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329. “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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330. “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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331. “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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332. “I know the subtlest movements of the city because I no longer sleep.”

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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “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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337. “She is the only person I know who actually likes exams.”

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

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340. “Beside me Sam had started to shake silently. “Stop them,” he murmured. “I’m going to bust my stitches.”

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341. “If someone wanted to be with you, after all, they just made it happen.”

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342. “She cried like someone heartbroken.”

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343. “It’s like he’s determined not to see the good in anything.”

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

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

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347. “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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348. “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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349. “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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350. “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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