Top 400 Jojo Moyes Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “He kissed her, and knew he was trying to tell her the depth of how he felt. Even as he lost himself in her, felt her hair sweep across his face, his chest, her lips meet his skin, her fingers, he understood that there were people for whom one other was their missing part.”

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354. “I looked at my boyfriend and wondered if he was actually an alien.”

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355. “Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.”

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356. “Nothing more dangerous than a woman armed with a little knowledge.”

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357. “You came for a romantic weekend to Paris. In your flip-flops.”

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358. “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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359. “I’m telling you there’s a while world out there.”

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360. “These are the things I learned about being a parent, while not actually being a parent. That whatever you did you would probably be wrong. If you were cruel or dismissive or neglectful, you would leave scars upon your charge.”

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361. “If he has love, he will feel he can go on.”

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362. “They were like animals, men. They found too much direct contact threatening.”

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363. “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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364. “Don’t let that thing define you” -Will Traynor.”

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

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366. “That is the worst thing about being a parent,” she said, as if I were one too. “You’re meant to be this serene, all-knowing, gracious person who can handle every situation.”

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367. “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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368. “It was a world of order, of high standards met and maintained. Mac felt curiousity reassured that a place like this still existed.”

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369. “I thought of Will telling me if I didn’t stop bloody whistling he’d be forced to run me over.”

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370. “I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister’s voice reminding me of who I had been.”

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371. “I have never really been an animal person. But I suddenly understood what comfort could be gained from burying your face in the soft pelt of another creature, the consolation of the many small.”

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372. “He dropped his head and kissed her. He kissed 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. When Jess extricated herself, it was only because she didn’t want the children to see her lose the ability to stand.”

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373. “I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window.”

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374. “You just destroy the thing you love. By weighing it down.”

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375. “You get to see the world in a whole new way. And then you have that beautiful picture burned onto the inside of your head. To carry it wherever you go and never forget it.”

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376. “I only know that when I’m not with you I’m mean and mad at everything.”

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377. “Louisa, is your life always like this?”

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378. “It never ended. Even though she’d thought she’d covered her heart with a permanent porcelain shell, he still found a way to chip at it.”

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379. “She’s genuine and funny and a bit daft.”

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380. “I liked the shorthand we seemed to fall into when nobody else was around, the easy intimacy that had sprung up between us. I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned out to be so much more than he had expected. On.”

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381. “I sang in the shower, lay awake dreaming. I wore my old dresses, my brightly colored cardigans and my satin pumps, and let myself be enclosed in a bubble of happiness, conscious that bubbles only ever existed for so long before they popped anyway.”

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382. “I closed my eyes and lay my head against the headrest, and we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill.”

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383. “Life is complicated. Which is why finding a little joy where you can is important.”

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384. “She thinks, briefly, that she has never felt so lonely in her life.”

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385. “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.”

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386. “I had mistaken feeling for feeling unhappy.”

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387. “Even thinking about heading up there again made my heart thump harder; it took nothing for me to recall that sense of the world disappearing from beneath me, like a rug pulled from under my feet.”

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388. “And as she walks, in a city of strangers, her nostrils filled with the scent of street food, her ears filled with an unfamiliar language, she feels something unexpected wash through her. She feels connected, alive.”

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389. “And I pressed send, realizing, as it whooshed into the ether, that I had now condemned myself to unknown hours of e-mail-related anxiety while I waited for him to respond.”

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390. “It was only when I followed Dad into our house and saw the empty chair that I was able to convince myself it was true. I would never see him again, never feel that curved old back under my fingertips as I hugged him, never again make him a cup of tea or interpret his silent words or joke with him about cheating at Sudoku.”

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391. “The young are right to be fearless, she reminded herself. Remember yourself at that age.”

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392. “I realized with mild disappointment that charity could mean something quite different here: that it was not enough to give, you had to be seen to be giving. Hospitals bore the names of their donors in six-foot-high letters above the door. Balls were named after those who funded them. Even buses bore lists of names alongside their rear windows. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gopnik were known as generous benefactors because they were visible in society as being so.”

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393. “If women try to get you to read something it’s because they fancy you. They want to be in your head. Try to make you think of stuff.”

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394. “And then Will got pneumonia.”

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395. “A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.”

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396. “She had once been told by her favorite aunt that the best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard, just as she had done with numerous suitcases before.”

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397. “He understood that there were people for whom one other was their missing part.”

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398. “This thing has shown her that age is no protection against the hazards of love.”

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399. “You have self-respect. You have friends. You have satisfaction every day, of a job well done. You have agency over your own life. These are not small things.”

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400. “There is no happiness in this world other than what is achieved by love of one’s work.”

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