I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.

— Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes Quotes

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.

— Jojo Moyes

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

— Jojo Moyes

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life – real life – seems to exist at one remove.

— Jojo Moyes

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

— Jojo Moyes

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

— Jojo Moyes

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

— Jojo Moyes

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

— Jojo Moyes

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.

— Jojo Moyes

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.

— Jojo Moyes

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it’s just because you’re still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

— Jojo Moyes

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen.

— Jojo Moyes

I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.

— Jojo Moyes

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.

— Jojo Moyes

How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

— Jojo Moyes

Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.

— Jojo Moyes

Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.

— Jojo Moyes

That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect. Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?

— Jojo Moyes

You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.

— Jojo Moyes

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

— Jojo Moyes

All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.

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