Quotes From "Me Before You" By Jojo Moyes

...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. Jojo Moyes

The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people. Jojo Moyes

I turned in my seat. Will’s face was in shadow and I couldn’t quite make it out.‘ Just hold on. Just for a minute.’‘ Are you all right?’ I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.‘ I’m fine. I just . . ’I could see his pale collar, his dark suit jacket a contrast against it.‘ I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about . . ’ He swallowed. Even in the half-dark it seemed effortful.‘ I just . . want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.’ I released the door handle.‘ Sure.’ I closed my eyes and lay my head against the headrest, and we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill. . Jojo Moyes

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak... Jojo Moyes

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen' 'You make it sound so simple.'' It is simple, ' he said. 'The thing is, it's also a lot of hard work. And people don't want to put in a lot of work. Jojo Moyes

I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. . Jojo Moyes

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

I didn't say much; my head was still ringing with the music, and I didn't want it to fade. I kept thinking back to it, the way that Will's friend had been so lost in what he was playing. I hadn't realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went. . Jojo Moyes

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been. Jojo Moyes

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person Jojo Moyes

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort. Jojo Moyes

Le Marais?’‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It’s the only place to stay. Jojo Moyes

Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you. to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’‘ Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’‘ I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’‘ I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks. Jojo Moyes

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live. Jojo Moyes

Be thrown into a new life (or at least thrown with sush force against the life of someone who is like squashed his face against the window) forces you to rethink who you are. Or what causes impression for others Jojo Moyes

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?- Lou Jojo Moyes

You still don’t get it, Clark, do you?’ I couldhear the smile in his voice. ‘It’s not your choice. Jojo Moyes

I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit. Jojo Moyes

I know we can do this. I know it’s nothow you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say is that you make me … you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine. You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you — even the you that you seem to think is diminished — than with anyone else in the world. Jojo Moyes

Its not a matter of giving you a chance. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me. I don't want you to be tied to me, to my hospital appointments, to the restrictions on my life. I don't want you to miss out on the things someone else could give you. Jojo Moyes

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen. Jojo Moyes

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street. . Jojo Moyes

How could I explain to this girl what 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? How could she understand that losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill? Jojo Moyes

It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one. I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied  by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. Jojo Moyes

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside. I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn’t even begin to understand. Jojo Moyes

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute. Jojo Moyes

Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Jojo Moyes

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove. Jojo Moyes

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove Jojo Moyes

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom — no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody. Jojo Moyes

I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress Jojo Moyes