Someone Else's Shoes

by Jojo Moyes

You know what my mum once said to me? ‘Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.’

Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour even though every cell in your body is telling you it’s too much for you to cope with.”