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

About Jojo Moyes

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...

More quotations from Jojo Moyes

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

—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

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

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

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

History

9 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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