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The Giver of Stars QUOTES

The Giver of Stars QUOTES

1 " There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

2 " I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

3 " The people of Baileyville were descended from Celts, from Scots and Irish families, who could hold on to resentment until it was dried out like beef jerky, and bearing no resemblance to its original self. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

4 " How was she supposed to bear the prospect of never seeing him again? Never seeing his face light up simply because she had walked into the room? Never catching his eye in a crowd, feeling the subtle heat that came with standing alongside a man she knew wanted her more than any other? "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

5 " Paul has heard stories of wartime brutality more appalling than anything he encountered while working in the NYPD; they are repeated with a clarity of recall that suggests they might have happened yesterday rather than decades ago. He has seen pain borne like a precious inheritance through the ages and writ large on the faces of those left behind. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

6 " There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

7 " And there followed a strange, elongated couple of minutes. The kind in which two people know they have to part, and don't want to.And while neither can acknowledge it, each believes the other feels it too. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

8 " She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she never felt entirely comfortable. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

9 " Pastor, you know you’re talking to a room full of happily unmarried women here, right? "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

10 " Una biblioteca es un lugar sagrado. Un templo del aprendizaje. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

11 " Vedi laggiù?" Indicò le montagne che incombevano in lontananza. "È quello che sognavo fin da bambina. Io e Charley, lassù: quello è il mio paradiso, Alice. E ho la possibilità di vivere il mio paradiso ogni giorno. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

12 " She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

13 " You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?” Margery said finally. “Ain’t the hurt. It’s that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them period. It’s when you realize they can always shut you up with a fist. Just like that.” She mulled over it for a Monet, then straightened up , and flashed Alice a tight smile. “Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

14 " That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

15 " Time flew. And each ended the night full and happy with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has been understood by somebody else. And that there might just be someone out there, who will only ever see the best in you. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

16 " This is what people don’t see, wrapped up in their cities, with the noise and the smoke, and their tiny boxes for houses. Up there you can breathe. You can’t hear the town talking and talking. No eyes on you, ’cept God’s. It’s just you and the trees and the birds and the river and the sky and freedom . . . Out there, it’s good for the soul. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

17 " A certain kind of man looked at God’s own land, she thought, as she drew closer, and instead of beauty and wonder, all he saw was dollar signs. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

18 " You and I both know I can do just fine without you. But here’s the thing: I don’t want to. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

19 " For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars

20 " That Mack McGuire, he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line. "

― Jojo Moyes , The Giver of Stars