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

“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

“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 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

“Just live well. Just live”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“You know, you would never have let those breasts so close to me if I weren’t in a wheelchair,’ he murmured.
I looked back at him steadily. ‘You would never have looked at my breasts if you hadn’t been in a wheelchair.’
‘What? Of course I would.’
‘Nope. You would have been far too busy looking at the tall blonde girls with the endless legs and the big hair, the ones who can smell an expense account at forty paces. And anyway, I wouldn’t have been here. I would have been serving the drinks over there. One of the invisibles.’
He blinked.
‘Well? I’m right, aren’t I?’
Will glanced over at the bar, then back at me. ‘Yes. But in my defense, Clark, I was an arse.”
― 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

“Sometimes , Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning -Will Traynor <3”
― 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

“What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?"
"But one day you might wish you had”
― 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.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Just live well. Just live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

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

“Oh, lighten up, Clark. I’m the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“You never know what will happen when you fall from a great height.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“Why do women always have to go over and over a situation until it becomes a problem?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“You’re the most terrible snob, Clark."

"What? Me?"

"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

“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“God Will, I wish you'd stop telling me what to do. What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?" My voice had become shrill. "What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't need to fill my days with activity?"
"Bur one day you might wish you had", he said quietly.
"Do you know what I would do if I were you?"
I put down my peeler. "I suspect you're going to tell me."
"Yes. And I'm completely unembarrassed about telling you. I'd be doing night school. I'd be training as a seamstress or a fashion designer or whatever it is that taps into what you really love." He gestured at my minidress, a Sixties-inspired Pucci-type dress, made with the fabric that had once been a pair of Grandad's curtains.
The first time Dad had seen it he had pointed at me and yelled, "Hey, Lou, pull yourself together!" It had taken him a full five minutes to stop laughing.
"I'd be finding out what I could do that didn't cost much - keep-fit classes, swimming, volunteering, whatever. I'd be teaching myself music or going for long walks with somebody else's dog, or -"
"Okay, okay, I get the message," I said, irritably. "But I'm not you, Will."
"Luckily for you.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places in your memory that you can go to.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You