The Giver of Stars Quotes

“There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?” Margery said finally. “Ain’t the hurt. It’s that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them period. It’s when you realize they can always shut you up with a fist. Just like that.” She mulled over it for a Monet, then straightened up , and flashed Alice a tight smile. “Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Time flew. And each ended the night full and happy with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has been understood by somebody else. And that there might just be someone out there, who will only ever see the best in you.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“This is what people don’t see, wrapped up in their cities, with the noise and the smoke, and their tiny boxes for houses. Up there you can breathe. You can’t hear the town talking and talking. No eyes on you, ’cept God’s. It’s just you and the trees and the birds and the river and the sky and freedom . . . Out there, it’s good for the soul.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Life is complicated. Which is why finding a little joy where you can is important.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“A certain kind of man looked at God’s own land, she thought, as she drew closer, and instead of beauty and wonder, all he saw was dollar signs.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“You and I both know I can do just fine without you. But here’s the thing: I don’t want to.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“To Seek Knowledge Is To Expand Your Own Universe”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“That Mack McGuire, he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“There was still beauty in this world, even if some days it took every bit of strength and obstinacy to find it.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Nothing more dangerous than a woman armed with a little knowledge”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?” Margery said finally. “Ain’t the hurt. It’s that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them period. It’s when you realize they can always shut you up with a fist. Just like that.” She mulled over it for a moment, then straightened up, and flashed Alice a tight smile. “Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Just a little homesick, Alice answered. It was the truth, she thought. She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“And there followed a strange, elongated couple of minutes. The kind in which two people know they have to part, and don't want to.And while neither can acknowledge it, each believes the other feels it too.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“You know what’s really wonderful about those fireflies?” he said, finally, as if they had been having a whole other conversation. “Sure, they live for just a few weeks. Not much at all in the grand scheme of things. But while they’re there, the beauty of them, well, it takes your breath away.” He ran a thumb over the ridge of her knuckles. “You get to see the world in a whole new way. And then you have that beautiful picture burned onto the inside of your head. To carry it wherever you go. And never forget it.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“How was she supposed to bear the prospect of never seeing him again? Never seeing his face light up simply because she had walked into the room? Never catching his eye in a crowd, feeling the subtle heat that came with standing alongside a man she knew wanted her more than any other?”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard,”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“We women face many unexpected challenges when we choose to step outside what are considered our habitual boundaries”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“. marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Don't leave. If you had any idea... any idea how much I want you here, Alice, that most nights I lie awake half crazy with it... I love you. Have done since the first day I laid eyes on you. When you're not around me it feels like I'm just wasting time. When you're here it's like... the whole world is colored just that little bit brighter. I want to feel your skin against mine. I want to see your smile and hear that laugh of yours when yo forget yourself and just let it burst straight out of you... I want to make you happy... I want to wake up every morning beside you and -- and -- and you're married. And I'm trying real hard to be a good man. SO until I can work a way around that, I can't. I just can't lay a finger on you. Now how I want to. All I can give you, Alice, is... words.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.” There was a silence before he spoke again. “Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“women around here. Doesn’t matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“She was so ridiculously happy that most days she didn't know how to contain it. Every morning before dawn she would unwrap her long limbs reluctantly from those of her husband, drink the coffee he insisted on making for her, then walk down to open the library and get the stove going, ready for the others to arrive. Despite the cold and the brutal hour, she was almost always to be found smiling. If Peggy Van Cleve's friends chose to remark that Alice Guisler had let herself go something awful since she'd started up at that library, what with her un-set hair and her mannish outfits (and to think her so refined and well-dressed when she came, and all!), then Fred couldn't have noticed less. He was married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and every night after they had each finished work, and put away the dishes side by side, he made sure to pay homage. In the still air of Split Creek it was not unusual for those who were walking past in the darkness to shake an amused head at the breathless and joyous sounds emanating from the house behind the library. In Baileyville, in winter, there was not much to do after the sun went down, after all.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars