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Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 August 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist, number-one New York Times best selling author and screenwriter. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

Quotes from Jojo Moyes

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.

—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You

When you work hard to get somewhere, it's quite nice to show people where you belong.

—Jojo Moyes in One Plus One

You can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply… off.

—Jojo Moyes in The Last Letter from Your Lover

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You

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Sometimes you need time away to sort things out in your head. It makes everything clearer.

—Jojo Moyes in The One Plus One

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 in Me Before You

I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.

—Jojo Moyes in Foreign Fruit

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She couldn't believe losing someone you had known such a short time could feel like losing part of yourself, that it could make food taste wrong and colors seem dull.

—Jojo Moyes in One Plus One

She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off of someone.

—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You

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.

—Jojo Moyes in One Plus One

Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else.

—Jojo Moyes in The Girl You Left Behind

I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn't loved me enough to stay in it.

—Jojo Moyes in After 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 in 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 in Me Before You

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

—Jojo Moyes in Me Before You

Books

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