Still Me (Me Before You #3)

by Jojo Moyes

If someone likes you, they will stay with you; if they don’t like you enough to stay with you, they aren’t worth being with anyway.

sometimes you just needed to be allowed to feel sad.

We have a difficult time allowing ourselves or someone else to feel sad. This is just being human and it’s okay!

Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy. 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.”

I was left alone with my thoughts, a bunch of unwelcome houseguests who refused to leave.

You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

I felt weary and cross in a way I couldn’t quite articulate, like I’d been asked to play a game whose rules I didn’t understand.

“You know,” she said, “when you get to my age, the pile of regrets becomes so huge it can obscure the view terribly.”

you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.”

But I suddenly understood what comfort could be gained from burying your face in the soft pelt of another creature, the consolation of the many small tasks that you’re obliged to perform for its welfare.