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“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.” (Me Before You Quotes)
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Apart from an exotic taste in clothes, and the fact that I’m a bit short, there’s not a lot separating me from anyone you might pass in the street. You probably wouldn’t look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“But there, in the inky dark, half drunk from lack of sleep, with the fire and the endless sea and infinite sky, with the sounds of the music in our ears and Will smiling and my heart bursting with something I couldn’t quite identify, I just needed to dance.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Don’t think of me too often. I don’t want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Everything takes time. And that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“I am not thick. I’d just like to get that out of the way at this point. But it’s quite hard not to feel a bit deficient in the Department of Brain Cells, growing up next to a younger sister who was moved up not just a year into my class, but then to the year above.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“I don’t know what I think. All I know it that most of the time, I would rather be with him than anyone else I know.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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
Me Before You
“I have become a whole new person because of you.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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
Me Before You
“I know we can do this. I know it’s not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say in 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
Me Before You
“I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“I liked the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who had never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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
Me Before You
“I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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
Me Before You
“In my experience there’s not much that can’t be fixed by a decent cup of tea.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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 offspring – 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.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Long-legged and blond, with pale caramel skin, she was the kind of woman who makes me wonder if all humans really are the same species. She looked like a human racehorse. Everything about her smelled of money, of entitlement, and a life lived as if through the pages of a glossy magazine.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know you shouldn’t be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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
Me Before You
“Spring arrived overnight, as if winter, like some unwanted guest, had abruptly shrugged its way into its coat and vanished, without saying good-bye. Everything became greener, the roads bathed in watery sunshine, the air suddenly balmy. There were hints of something floral and welcoming in the air, birdsong the gentle backdrop to the day.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“That’s the thing you don’t know about children unless you have them – bath time, Lego, and fish fingers don’t allow you to dwell on tragedy for too long.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“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
Me Before You
“They say you only really appreciate a garden once you reach a certain age, and I suppose there is a truth in that. It’s probably something to do with the great circle of life. There seems to be something miraculous about seeing the relentless optimism of new growth after the bleakness of winter, a kind of joy in the difference every year, the way nature chooses to show off different parts of the garden to its full advantage. There have been times when it has been a refuge, times when it has been a joy.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“Unemployment had been a concept, something droningly referred to on the news in relation to shipyards or car factories. I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb – a constant, reflexive thing. 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 than 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
Me Before You
“We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“You are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone but I hope you feel exhilarated too.”
Jojo Moyes
Me Before You
