The Last Letter from Your Lover Quotes

“Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“It was indeed a gift to have someone to love.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“To have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“She regards Ellie gravely. "You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply...off.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Their eyes met, and in those few silent moments, he told her everything. He told her that she was the most astonishing thing he had ever encountered. He told her that she haunted his waking hours, and that every feeling, every experience he had in his life up to that point was flat and unimportant to the enormity of this. He told her he loved her.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Take him to you, if you must, my love, but don’t love him. Please don’t love him.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“What are you saying?" He fought to keep his voice under control. "You love me but there's no hope for us?”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect. Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place where I will never see you, never be haunted by the possibility of seeing you with him. I need to be somewhere where sheer necessity forces you from my thoughts minute by minute, hour by hour, I cannot do that here.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“...there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“She’d read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“...to have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift. Even if we are not together, to know that, for you, I am that man is a source of sustenance to me.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“When you looked at me with those limitless, deliquescent eyes of yours, I used to wonder what it was you could possibly see in me. Now I know that is a foolish view of love. You and I could no more not love each other than the earth could stop circling the sun.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“There's no such thing as a life free of complications, Rory. We all end up making compromises in the end.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“If you were mine," Anthony said, "I wouldn't leave you alone for a minute."

"I bet you say that to all the girls."

"Don't," he said. "I hate that."

"Oh you can't pretend you haven't used all your best lines on other women first. I know you, Boot. You told me, remember?”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“She didn't talk about it: if this past year has taught her one thing, it is to live in the present. She immersed herself in every moment, refusing to cloud it by considering the cost. The fall would come - it always did - but she usually collected enough memories to cushion it a little.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“He kissed her, and knew he was trying to tell her the depth of how he felt. Even as he lost himself in her, felt her hair sweep across his face, his chest, her lips meet his skin, her fingers, he understood that there were people for whom one other was their missing part.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Anthony," she had said, and with that one word,had given him not only herself but a new, better edited version of his future.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“It never ended. Even though she’d thought she’d covered her heart with a permanent porcelain shell, he still found a way to chip at it.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“He will be out there, living his life to the full, when she seems to have put hers perennially on hold.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“He talked to her in the way that people tell lifelong secrets to fellow passengers in railway carriages.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that ‘if only’ is a very dangerous game indeed.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Ich habe vor langer Zeit gelernt, dass "was wäre, wenn…" ein gefährliches Spiel ist.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“She could show her daughter that there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“I thought I was happy. I thought my life was fine. And then you came along, and nothing . . . nothing makes sense anymore.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover