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21 " So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. "
― Jojo Moyes
22 " 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 , Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
23 " Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay. "
― Jojo Moyes , One Plus One
24 " The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved. "
25 " Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength. "
― Jojo Moyes , After You (Me Before You, #2)
26 " You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person "
27 " There is a whole lot more to life than winning. "
― Jojo Moyes , The Girl You Left Behind
28 " 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. "
29 " 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. "
30 " 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. "
31 " It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief "
32 " Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill. "
33 " moving on means we have to protect ourselves. "
34 " Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning. "
35 " No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. "
36 " Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture. "
37 " 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. "
38 " She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on. "
39 " Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith. "
40 " Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years. "