Jojo Moyes

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

— Jojo Moyes

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

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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.”

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

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

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

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“Take him to you, if you must, my love, but don’t love him. Please don’t love him.”

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“completely insane algebraic equations?” “You know us too well.” Jess sat down in her”

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... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it…

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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if…

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“I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing…

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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had…

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“I liked the exoticism his travels gave him, the unknownness. He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world,…

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“Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers, he said. I think that's kind of the point of them.”

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

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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

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“Psychic.” “Thirty pounds a ticket, they’re paying, to sit there with a glass of cheap white wine and shout, “Yes!” when someone…

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“Did I imagine it all? Sometimes I think I've made what happened between Will and me so much bigger in my head.…

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“There is nothing redemptive about the loss of a child, no lessons of value it can teach you. It is too big,…

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The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the…

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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your…

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“When Jess had Tanzie, young and daft as she had been, she'd had enough wisdom to know she was going to tell…

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“I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became…

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“If you were mine," Anthony said, "I wouldn't leave you alone for a minute." "I bet you say that to all the…

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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath…

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“It’s just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the…

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“12 I wrote to Mrs. Traynor. I didn’t tell her about Lily, just that I hoped she was well, that I was…

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“I'm not going to try and change your mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing…

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“Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn't hold you close, or tell you all the time that…

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“He stopped, puffing slightly. He studied the shop window for a few seconds, as if he was thinking. Then he faced me.…

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She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the…

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“I was so furious, you see, that all around me were things that could move and bend and grow and reproduce and…

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“Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .”

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

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“like brightly colored sparrows in and out of hedgerows.”

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

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“They sat in companionable silence, sipping their tea.”

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“I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that ‘if only’ is a very dangerous game indeed.”

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“But one of the things you learn in therapy is that there comes a point when you have to take care of…

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“This is what catastrophe does: it strips away the fluff and the white noise, the should I really and the but what…

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