Quotes From "After You" By Jojo Moyes

Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength. Jojo Moyes

I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didn’t expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall. Jojo Moyes

No. Really. I've thought about it a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they're not living, breathing people any more. It's not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It's just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a whole. I don't know. It's like you become.. a doughnut instead of a bun. Jojo Moyes

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived. Jojo Moyes

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

Moving on means we have to protect ourselves. Jojo Moyes

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning. Jojo Moyes

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Jojo Moyes

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture. Jojo Moyes

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

Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you're my chance? Jojo Moyes

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group. Jojo Moyes

You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more. It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It’s just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun. Jojo Moyes

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you. Jojo Moyes

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

I could barely even say Will's name. And listening to their tales of family relationships, of thirty-year marriages, shared houses, lives, children, I felt like a fraud. I had been a carer for someone for six months. I'd loved him, and watched him end his life. How could these strangers possibly understand what Will and I had been to each other during that time? How could I explain the way we had so swiftly understood each other, the shorthand jokes, the blunt truths and raw secrets? How could I convey the way those short months had changed the way I felt about everything? The way he had skewed my world so totally that it made no sense without him in it? . Jojo Moyes

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding. Jojo Moyes

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

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