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

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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, #1 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...

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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