We All Live Here Quotes

“There are periods of your life in which all that is really required is to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“This is life at this age, she muses, a million goodbyes, and you never know which are the final ones. You just absorb them, like little shocks, trusting with each one that you’ll be able to keep moving forward.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“You can hang on to anger and bitterness your whole life. But all you really do is prolong your own pain. Just think about it. Put that burden down.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Life is long and complicated, Lila, and we all make mistakes. What matters is what we do beyond them. But if you’re going to hold up your mother and your father as villains of the piece it will be misguided and it is ultimately you who will suffer.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Now I just try to live every day with an open heart and an open mind and see what happens.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“How can I be behaving like I’m fifteen when my neck is old enough to be growing an actual wattle?”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“a quote from Rilke: ‘Keep going. No feeling is final.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Celie, baby, you look around at people who are happy in themselves in their lives—they’re just busy living, having a good time. They don’t set out to be mean to other people. Their energy is going into other things. It doesn’t even occur to them to hurt someone else, or to try to make them feel small. In fact, they’re more likely to be building other people up. So you know what you’re going to do?”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Keep going. No feeling is final.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“One of the things I come up against often in my practice is the notion of forgiveness. Do you want to repeat the mistakes your parents made? Holding on to your grievances for the rest of your life? Or do you want to put that burden down?”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Life is long and complicated”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Lila had not understood the comfort she had drawn from walking into that house every week until her mother was gone.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“And, besides, what does she owe them? This is her chance to claw back her narrative, to speak for all the women who have been left, who are trying to keep their remaining family afloat amid a series of catastrophic decisions and choices that were very much not theirs.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“you didn’t want me to write shit about you, you should have been nicer to me.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“his tidying, his insistence on peace and order are a constant reminder that she is apparently unable to provide those things. And although she knows rationally that his activities are a help, some dark part of her feels them as a stinging reminder that she has failed.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“The key, I’ve found, to moving forward, is asking myself, during these moments: do I want to be right? Or do I want to be happy?”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Marriage, I’ve learnt over fifteen years, is a never-ending series of constantly shifting compromises. Your partner is not always going to behave in the way you want. You probably don’t behave in a way they want. The trick is to look at the big picture, and ask: how do we move this forward? To think in terms of ‘us’. For as long as you see yourselves as a unit, you have the same goal: to be together, and to be happy together. That’s essentially the most important thing.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“What would her mother have done? Several hours go by in her head until she fumbles for the only question she can think of. ‘Are you okay?”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“You can feel fondness, irritation, lust, gratitude all in the same half-hour. The trick is to understand this process, this ebb and flow, and not be panicked by your own emotions. Because as long as you’re both in this together, a team, you know deep in your bones that this is just part of the glorious business of being human.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“love is a process. It is a verb. All marriages have peaks and troughs, and over those years you gain a greater perspective and realize that it is just part of the ebb and flow of your own, special, unique romantic life. Marriage can contain multitudes of emotions in one single day.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“You can hang on to anger and bitterness your whole life. But all you really do is prolong your own pain.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Life is long and complicated, Lila, and we all make mistakes. What matters is what we do beyond them. But”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“those lines. And I always think of that, when things are a bit rough. No feeling is final. The shitty times don’t last forever. Even if they feel like it.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“The garden. It’s going to be a nice thing.” When she doesn’t say anything he grins and adds: “Sometimes things just turn out…nice.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Life is long and complicated, Lila, and we all make mistakes. What matters is what we do beyond them.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Life is going to batter you, honey. She’s a cruel mistress. So you have to find the place in your head where you can get lost in a good way.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“No feeling is final. The shitty times don’t last forever. Even if they feel like it.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Rilke: ‘Keep going. No feeling is final.’ Something along those lines. And I always think of that, when things are a bit rough. No feeling is final. The shitty times don’t last forever. Even if they feel like it.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Yeah. Bill told me. Sorry about that. Oh, look. A squirrel.” She waits for him to ask more questions, but he stares at the squirrel and appears to have forgotten the conversation.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here

“Because it’s only hurt people who hurt people.”
― Jojo Moyes, We All Live Here