Still Me (Me Before You #3)

by Jojo Moyes

Their hands briefly clasped, and in that moment I noted that two people could fit all the stereotypes and yet there was something about them that was completely genuine, a delight in each other’s presence.

a study in apparent insouciance.

I hid my own power and made him blind with his.

I wasn’t sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.

All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could and we never shall. Women always have to make the difficult choices. But there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.”

I thought how lucky you might be to find not one but two extraordinary men to love—and what a fluke it was if they happened to love you back.

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,

It’s going to be hard and I’m going to be broke, and when I’m home each night I pretty much fall asleep on my feet, but for the first time in my life, Sam, I wake up excited. I love meeting the customers

This was the problem with grand gestures, I realized. They tended to backfire in spectacular fashion.

The key was making sure that anyone you allowed to walk beside you didn’t get to decide which you were, and pin you down like a butterfly in a case. The key was to know that you could always somehow find a way to reinvent yourself again.