After You Jojo Moyes Quotes

#1. The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. People often wonder why God allows hunger, poverty and war in our world. Perhaps God wonders why we allow it.
from: Quotes about God ISBN 978-1-936462-20-9

The Prophet Of Life

#3. There's only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You LIVE. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.

Jojo Moyes

#4. There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist

Sam Allardyce

#5. My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'

Jojo Moyes

#6. I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

Sonia Sotomayor

#7. From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Kendrick Lamar

#8. Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

Jojo Moyes

#9. Home, I thought: the place where I was destined to live out my days, alone, and unloved- until I died and was eaten by my cat.

Janet Goss

#10. moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

Jojo Moyes

#11. If someone wanted to be with you, after all, they just made it happen.

Jojo Moyes

#12. No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

Jojo Moyes

#13. I'm not letting go of you.

Jojo Moyes

#14. She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

Jojo Moyes

#15. 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?

Jojo Moyes

#16. My voice cut into the silence. The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away.

Jojo Moyes

#17. So what was the hardest part?' Mr Gopnik said.
'I'm sorry?'
'Of working for William Traynor. It sounds like quite a challenge.'
I hesitated. The room was suddenly very quiet. 'Letting him go.' I said. And found myself unexpectedly biting back tears.

Jojo Moyes

#18. I ... " - her voice nearly disappeared - "think I live for you.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. Will and I had been to each other, the way I felt that no person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again

Jojo Moyes

#20. Fuck," she said, after a minute. "And I thought I liked to make my life complicated." She

Jojo Moyes

#21. There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise.

Francis De Sales

#22. I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it's one of the things we learn while growing up, after all).

Jojo Moyes

#23. I'm not letting go of you" - Sam

Jojo Moyes

#24. The city, compelling as it was, felt like a glamorous couture dress I had bought in haste but that didn't quite fit me after all.

Jojo Moyes

#25. We had thought it a little odd, but what did we know? Lou has been peculiar since birth, after all. Mum

Jojo Moyes

#26. I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

Jojo Moyes

#27. When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.
Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

Jojo Moyes

#28. I was let go after one of the doughnut girls caught me debating the varying merits of the free toys with a four-year-old. What can I say? She was a smart four-year-old. I also thought the Sleeping Beautys were sappy.

Jojo Moyes

#29. There is nothing more disconcerting to passers-by than to see a man in a wheelchair pleading with a woman who is meant to be looking after him. It's apparently not really the done thing to be angry with your disabled charge. Especially

Jojo Moyes

#30. 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.

Jojo Moyes

#31. Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

Jojo Moyes

#32. ... "Lived happily ever after," Natasha concluded, thinking back to that photograph. The woman who was well loved.
John's glare was withering. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "Who the hell gets to live happily ever after?

Jojo Moyes

#33. You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.

Jojo Moyes

#34. How come you always make everything better?'
'I just don't like seeing you sad.

Jojo Moyes

#35. It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

Jojo Moyes