Still Me Quotes

“Well,’ Pip smiled, ‘I’m still me.’ She hoped that was true.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“I thought about how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason, and then I thought, despite all that, in the end maybe you have to lose them all in order to truly find yourself.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I was living in a city whose rules I didn't entirely understand, with no permanent address, and I had failed in pretty much every job I had ever held.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I tried to think about what I really wanted, rather than what everyone else seemed to want for me. I thought about what Will had really been telling me—not to live some vicarious idea of a full life but to live my own dream. The problem was, I don't think I'd ever really worked out what that dream was.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I have to tell you it made me so bloody glad that I wanted to shout like a crazy person and do a dance, but I'm crap at dancing and I had nobody to talk to so I went and let the hens out and sat on the step and told them instead (they were not massively impressed. But what do they know?).”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I hope your day was full of good things.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“...one eye trying to assess the risk of being murdered in my bed.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“And, gradually, I let him know what it meant to me to have him in my life again, his voice in my ear in the small hours, the knowledge that I meant something to him. The sense of him as a physical presence, despite the miles that separated us.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I love the fact that every day I get to reimagine who I want to be.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“When people we love die young it's a nudge, reminding us that we shouldn't take any of it for granted, that we have a duty to make the most of what we have. I feel like I finally get that.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“...about to find out which way my life was about to go next.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“My stomach turned somersaults.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be. Once, my life was destined to be measured out in the most ordinary of steps.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I was Louisa Clark from New York or Louisa Clark from Stortfold. Or there might be a whole other Louisa I hadn't met yet.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I thought of how in less than twelve months I had survived homelessness and joblessness in one of the toughest cities on earth.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“...for giving me such a clear window into these very specific worlds.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“It’s quite weird being on the other side of the world by yourself for the first time.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“The cost of all that might turn out to be a relationship with someone whose life is completely different and a million miles away. That’s the choice you make when you head out.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“Here is the thing about jealousy. It’s not a good look. And the rational part of you knows that.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“If you ever find yourself in a melancholy state of mind, removed from your family and a little unsure about the person you love.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“That’s what we have to keep remembering. We’re still under the same sky.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“But it is a long time since I believed love solved everything.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“This is how being rude is these days. I tell it like I see it. I’m just being honest. The language of the bully. We all know how this is.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“You said . . . nobody would ever hurt me again. You said that. I never thought for a moment you would be the one to do it.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I have no curiosity about this gigantic, life-altering secret whatsoever. You’re safe with me.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“But we live in an age of instant gratification. And we’re in the city where anything you want you get yesterday.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“I guess I’m just afraid that if I let myself fall again I’ll be setting myself up for more hurt.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me