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“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“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, After You

“moving on means we have to protect ourselves.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well.

Just live.”
― Jojo Moyes

“You just destroy the thing you love by weighing it down.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“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

“Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“How many times had she wanted to have this conversation? How many times had she rehearsed all the things she wanted to say to him?”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“I hope your day was full of good things.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

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

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

“...about to find out which way my life was about to go next.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“My stomach turned somersaults.”
― Jojo Moyes, 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“...for giving me such a clear window into these very specific worlds.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“You don’t ever do something just because it makes you feel good?â€�
The assistant shrugs. “Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“He feels a brief pang that something so major has happened in her life without him knowing.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“It’s a pang of discomfort but not of pain.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“And everything you say sounds better because it’s in French. I might just have to speak in a fake French accent for the rest of my life.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories

“But you can tell so much about someone from what they wear.”
― Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories