Still Me (Me Before You #3)

by Jojo Moyes

“As in drugs, prostitutes, houses of ill-repute?” I whispered, as the service lift doors closed around us. “No. As in theater tickets, restaurant tables, best places to get your dry-cleaning,” Nathan said. “This is Fifth Avenue. Jesus. What have you been doing back in London?”

At one point I felt so bad that when I walked into my bathroom and saw a large chestnut-colored cockroach on the sink I didn’t scream, like I had previously, but briefly considered making it a pet, like a character in a children’s novel.

But you can’t buy books if you barely got enough to make rent. So that library is a vital resource! You shut a library, Louisa, you don’t just shut down a building, you shut down hope.”

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 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.

There is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.