One Plus One
Jojo Moyes
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.”
“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”
“The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”
“Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn't hold you close, or tell you all the time that you were the best thing ever, or even notice when you were home: a little part of you sealed over. You didn't need her. You didn't need anyone. And without even knowing you were doing it, you waited. You waited for anyone who got close to you to see something they didn't like in you, something they hadn't initially seen, and to grow cold and disappear, too, like so much sea mist. Because there had to be something wrong, didn't there, if even your own mother didn't really love you?”
“Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people' 'Find my people?' 'Your tribe”
“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”
“The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or… basically, sometimes you just have to keep going.”
“We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.”
“She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.”
“Heartbreak was a luxury too costly for the single parent.”
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Book Keywords:
mothers, love, children, life, best-friends, people, tired, giving-up, friends, motherhood, different, sadness, love-friendship, smile-anyway
