Jojo Moyes Quotes

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Jojo Moyes is a renowned British novelist known for her emotionally rich and engaging stories. Her works often focus on modern love and family relationships, which have won her a wide following.

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All Jojo Moyes Still Me Love Life Ifs Me Before You Will Traynor Knows London Long Distance Relationship

Famous Jojo Moyes Quotes

“The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.”

People Wells Ideas Hard Whole Seems Might Faces Force Window Who You Are Your Face New Life

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

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

People Ideas Juggling Daft

Book:The Girl You Left Behind

Source: The Girl You Left Behind

“There is a whole lot more to life than winning.”

Whole Winning More To Life

Book:The Girl You Left Behind

Source: The Girl You Left Behind

“Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.”

Sometimes Matter Life Is Realizing Feet Fronts Blind Series Obstacles Blind Faith Sometimes In Life

Author:Jojo Moyes

“... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”

Ifs Needs Wells Dresses

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”

Wells Settling Live Well Just Live Push Yourself

Author:Jojo Moyes

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

Want Sometimes Morning Get Up

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“Just live well. Just live”

Wells Live Well Just Live

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“And I don't want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not...not be able to do what I want with you. Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I...i can't live with that knowledge. I can't. It's Not who I am. I can't be the kind of man who just...accepts.”

Ifs Men Want Looks Kind I Can Ideas Able Accepting Watches Crazy Right Now Dresses Who I Am Naked Wander Wandering Around Your Crazy

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”

Men World Kind Love You This World Clever Suspects Always Loved You

Author:Jojo Moyes

“So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”

Firsts Heart Felt My Heart Clothes Jokes Ridiculous Inability Bad Jokes

Author:Jojo Moyes

“She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.”

Way Want Feels Years Firsts Doe Done Today Moving Voice Loss Numbers Weight Died Invisible Temptation Carrie Awkward Mobile His Loss

Author:Jojo Moyes

“Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.”

Knows Want Long Enough Sides

Author:Jojo Moyes

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

Want Helping

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.”

Purpose Patterns Cycles

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

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

Knowing Each Day Live Each Day

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”

Done Memories Regret

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”

People World Two Stories Found Mets Understood

Author:Jojo Moyes

“"You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'" "But, I’m not." "How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?"”

Knows Kind Persons Ideas Done Cutting Do You Know

Author: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”

Two Happens Wanted Jobs Things Happen Two Things Make Me Happy

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“"What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?"... "What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had."”

Ifs Want Book Home Might Wish Television One Day Activity Tired What If Wish You I'm Tired Watching Television

Author:Jojo Moyes

“Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.”

Men Way Young Successful Generations Harder Young Man Expecting Take Time It Takes Time Like Yourself Expecting Things

Author:Jojo Moyes

“I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.”

Men Want Has Beens Girl Minutes Red Dresses Concerts Be A Man

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“I frowned at the list. “So… I’ll go back and tell the Traynors that I’m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—”

Son Lists Drunk Dancer Disability Olympics Suicidal Lap Quadriplegics

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?”

Said Enough Eye Voice Wide Her Eyes Dropping Bleak

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that 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.”

Ifs Done Helping Pain Grief Knowing Mets One Day Conscious Angry Upset Good Life Better Life Really Good Life

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.”

Humans Heart Doe Human Heart Vacuums

Book:The Last Letter from Your Lover

Source: The Last Letter from Your Lover

“But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.”

Knows Way Stills I Can Wife Hundred Blame My Wife One Way Cows Blame Me Don't Blame Me

Book:The Last Letter from Your Lover

Source: The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.”

Believe Certain Hours Wife Mouths Believe In Me Dentist Drills

Author:Jojo Moyes

“There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.”

People Hunger Buried Fearlessness

Author:Jojo Moyes

“If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.”

Ifs Writing Feelings Cry Emotional Keys Scene Guts Gut Feelings

Author: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.”

Knows Feels Kind Whole Feelings Home Walks Rooms Like You Fit One Day Office University Clubs Whole Life

Book:The One Plus One

Source: The One Plus One

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

Knows Fighting Like You Mercy Aim Vulnerable Sister

Book:The Girl You Left Behind

Source: The Girl You Left Behind

“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”

Life Stuff Listening Sensible

Book:The One Plus One

Source: The One Plus One

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

Believe Suffering Forgiving Benign

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

About the Author

Born: 1969
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 285

Books & Sources

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Me Before YouRelated source material

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After YouRelated source material

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