Someone Else's Shoes

by Jojo Moyes

“Perhaps. But if you cannot change your situation, then you have no choice. You can only change how you think about it.”

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.”

“when we’re low, it can be easy to see everything through a prism of negativity. Human beings are remarkably bad at understanding other people’s motivations, even when they know them terribly well. We write all sorts of inaccurate stories in our heads.”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t get this one. Think of it as a practice run so you get used to being in interview situations again.”