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“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

“I'm not going to try and change your mind."
"If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident."
"I know."
And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...”
― 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

“Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’
‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’
‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’
‘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 n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”
― 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

“Best before: 19 March 2007”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“You still don’t get it, Clark, do you?" I could hear the smile in his voice. "It's not your choice.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing going on.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I'm in love with you"

Finally, the girl looks at me. "What?"

"I don't know." I gesture to the house, the yard, the dirt surrounding us. "I'm not sure what suggested romance. Maybe it was the screaming match or the way my girlfriend kicked my ass to the ground, but I love you."

Her mouth gapes. "I...I..."

"I don't want you to say it back now. One of us should have some class.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you and I don't know how to make you feel better. I'm in love with you and I shouldn't be. I'm in love with you and once you figure out who I am, you're not going to love me. I'm in love with you and I seem to fuck up the ones who love me back.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“Go there and I swear to God you’ll have to check ‘other’ when asked if you’re male or female.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“...this sort of feels like green."
"This is me being blue. Don't worry - you're still yellow”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible to have been surrounded by people and never feel complete?”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“This doesn’t mean anything,” Haley whispers as she reaches up and pulls at the Velcro of my glove.
“Yes, it does.” I bring my arms to my sides and the instant the gloves fall to the floor, my hands latch on to that beautiful body. “Tell me, Haley. Please tell me it does because this means something to me.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“I'm used to people talking, saying words aloud to prove they know more than me, that they're better than me. But they're just words. Syllables strung together between breaths to fill uncomfortable silences.
Meaningless words.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“I'm already half-dust, Hayley, and I'm tired of trying to hold together what's left.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“Has there ever been anything in your life you've learned that you wish you could take back knowing?”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“No more game playing. It's time we call this fight what it is: a war.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“The feeling that no matter what happened or what I did, there was someplace safe to fall.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“You asked me earlier what it was like to come home,” I say.
Haley nods. I lace our fingers together and raise them into the air. “I couldn’t answer you because I didn’t know, but now I do. This-” I rock out hands “-I finally found home.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“We crossed beyond friends the night we spent in your room and you know that. Fuck, Haley, there isn’t a moment that we haven’t been into each other and I’m not the only one in the room aware of it.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“Isaiah’s initial response was to let you bleed out in the street, but then he got sentimental and thought Rachel would be sad if you died, so he called and asked me to take care of you. I told him Rachel would’ve gotten over you and that we could make her happy if we bought her a bunny, but he was so damned insistent. See, Isaiah and I have this past. I’ve known him forever because we met each other in a Dumpster—”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“Not when everything inside me is so twisted it hurts to breathe”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“Where the hell is your guard?" She shouts.
Damn if she doesn't sound like Haley. "I'm tired."
"Do I look like I care? You're getting the hell pounded out of you. If you want to tap out, then tap out, but don't stand there and let him win.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“When it comes to your children, you don't want hard. You don't want to see them hurt.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“If it wasn't for Noah, Echo would need me more... she would still be insecure, she would still be obsessing over the scars on her arms. She possibly wouldn't have recovered her memory of the night she got them. If it wasn't for him, she wouldn't be moving on with her life. Damn him for being a great guy.”
― Katie McGarry, Crossing the Line

“The entire sky erupted into hundreds of streaks of light. I never felt so alive. I wished that you were here with me or me with you. But I think you were. Call me crazy, but it was a moment, Lila, and I'm glad I shared it with you. Even if it was from a couple hundred miles away. ~Lincoln”
― Katie McGarry, Crossing the Line