Quotes by Jojo Moyes, After You

“I'm not letting go of you.”

“I'm not letting go of you" - Sam”

“Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.”

“Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you're my chance?”

“I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didnt expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his so...”

“You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.”

“No. Really. I've thought about it a lot. 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...”

“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.”

“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”

“moving on means we have to protect ourselves.”

“Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.”

“Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.”

“When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.”

“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if theyre not living, breathing people any more.Its not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you...”

“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”

“It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.”

“I could barely even say Will's name. And listening to their tales of family relationships, of thirty-year marriages, shared houses, lives, children, I felt like a fraud. I had been a carer for some...”

“The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.”

“Nobody ever feels theyre doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think thats kind of the point of them.”