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“I’m going to say a Will Traynor thing now.” I said it like a warning. “Okay.” “There’s almost not a day that I’m here when I don’t think he’d be proud of me.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me Will Traynor Louisa Clark

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“Well,’ Pip smiled, ‘I’m still me.’ She hoped that was true.”

Book:As Good As Dead

Source: As Good As Dead

“I thought about how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason, and then I thought, despite all that, in the end maybe you have to lose them all in order to truly find yourself.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I was living in a city whose rules I didn't entirely understand, with no permanent address, and I had failed in pretty much every job I had ever held.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I tried to think about what I really wanted, rather than what everyone else seemed to want for me. I thought about what Will had really been telling me—not to live some vicarious idea of a full life but to live my own dream. The problem was, I don't think I'd ever really worked out what that dream was.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I have to tell you it made me so bloody glad that I wanted to shout like a crazy person and do a dance, but I'm crap at dancing and I had nobody to talk to so I went and let the hens out and sat on the step and told them instead (they were not massively impressed. But what do they know?).”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I hope your day was full of good things.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“...one eye trying to assess the risk of being murdered in my bed.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“And, gradually, I let him know what it meant to me to have him in my life again, his voice in my ear in the small hours, the knowledge that I meant something to him. The sense of him as a physical presence, despite the miles that separated us.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I love the fact that every day I get to reimagine who I want to be.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“When people we love die young it's a nudge, reminding us that we shouldn't take any of it for granted, that we have a duty to make the most of what we have. I feel like I finally get that.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“...about to find out which way my life was about to go next.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“My stomach turned somersaults.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. 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.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be. Once, my life was destined to be measured out in the most ordinary of steps.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I was Louisa Clark from New York or Louisa Clark from Stortfold. Or there might be a whole other Louisa I hadn't met yet.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I thought of how in less than twelve months I had survived homelessness and joblessness in one of the toughest cities on earth.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“...for giving me such a clear window into these very specific worlds.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“It’s quite weird being on the other side of the world by yourself for the first time.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“The cost of all that might turn out to be a relationship with someone whose life is completely different and a million miles away. That’s the choice you make when you head out.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“Here is the thing about jealousy. It’s not a good look. And the rational part of you knows that.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“If you ever find yourself in a melancholy state of mind, removed from your family and a little unsure about the person you love.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“That’s what we have to keep remembering. We’re still under the same sky.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“But it is a long time since I believed love solved everything.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“This is how being rude is these days. I tell it like I see it. I’m just being honest. The language of the bully. We all know how this is.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“You said . . . nobody would ever hurt me again. You said that. I never thought for a moment you would be the one to do it.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I have no curiosity about this gigantic, life-altering secret whatsoever. You’re safe with me.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“But we live in an age of instant gratification. And we’re in the city where anything you want you get yesterday.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I guess I’m just afraid that if I let myself fall again I’ll be setting myself up for more hurt.”

Love Life New York London Long Distance Relationship Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I wondered how it would feel to be out there, on your own, in the middle of nowhere.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“...you held on to my hand I felt something give in me. And suddenly I had someone I looked forward to talking to. Someone who understood how I felt. Really, really understood.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I had walked away from Patrick knowing deep down that, for both of us, our relationship had become a habit, a pair of shoes you might no really love but wore because you couldn't be bothered to get new ones.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I had walked away from Patrick knowing deep down that, for both of us, our relationship had become a habit, a pair of shoes you might not really love but wore because you couldn't be bothered to get new ones”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“...anything to stop me having to sit and contemplate my own life.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I was left alone with my thoughts, a bunch of unwelcome houseguests who refused to leave.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I pressed my ear against the door, trying to work out if it was safe to knock, feeling furtive, as if it were I who was at fault. But all I could hear was music and muffled conversation.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“You and I. We are both immigrants. We both know it is hard to find your place in this world. You want to make your life better, work hard in country that is not your own—you make new life, new friends, find new love. You get to become new person! But is never a simple thing, never without cost.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“Just get through today, I told myself. If life had taught me one thing, it was that the answers would come soon enough.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“For the first time I felt overwhelmed, crushed by the knowledge that I was alone in a city that no longer welcomed me.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“Outside, life in Manhattan continued, oblivious, fast-moving, ignoring the detritus that piled up in the gutter.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I tell you, mate, I've learned a whole new bunch of swear words today.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I've messed up everything again and I don't know why I even bother trying to be something more than I was because every time I do it ends in disaster.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“And then he kissed me. He did it so casually that I almost didn't register what he was doing. He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips, like it was something he'd done a million times before, like it was the natural end to all our lunch dates.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I had spent months wishing I had more free time. Now that I had it, I found the city was not a friendly place without money to burn.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“Department stores were a depressing no-no, as I no longer felt able to spend money.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I don't know if it was just the joy of being surrounded by books, and quiet, but I felt like an equal here, inconspicuous, a brain, a keyboard, just another person searching for information.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I was partly flattered, but mostly grateful that this implied he wasn't offended by my earlier reticence.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me

“I told myself there was no point in dwelling on something that was gone.”

Jojo Moyes Still Me

Book:Still Me

Source: Still Me