Mikee > Mikee's Quotes

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
― 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

“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.”
― 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

“You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”
― 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 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 told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?”
― 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

“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person’”
“But, I’m not.”
“How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
― 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

“There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.”
― 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

“How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.”
― 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.”
― 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

“Challenge yourself a bit.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Don't let that thing define you" -Will Traynor”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?
But I had promised.”
― 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

“I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.”
― 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 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

“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