After You
Jojo Moyes
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”
“The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”
“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”
“It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.”
“Too many people follow their own happiness without a thought for the damage they leave in their wake.”
“You never know what will happen when you fall from a great height.”
“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”
“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.”
“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 . . . There is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Just live well. Just live.”
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