Mebeforeyou Quotes

“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more.
It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It’s just something you learn to accommodate.
Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“How could I explain to this girl what Will and I had been to each other,
the way I felt that no person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again?
How could she understand that losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.
I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn’t even begin to understand.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You