The Peacock Emporium Quotes

“She gave me another hard look, the kind that can only travel from mother to daughter”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“about”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“inanimate”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“one had once completed without thought now required planning and careful assessment.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“She used to divide people into drains and radiators. Drains are the type that are always miserable, that want to tell you their problems, suck the life out of you... Radiators are what Jess was. She warmed us all up.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“It was the feeling that her promise had hemmed her in, that she was now bound by obligation to produce this thing, to harbor it in a body that had always been, quite comfortably, entirely hers.

(Suzanna's thoughts after promising her husband that they can try for a baby.)”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“The problem with getting older was not so much that one got stuck on the past, Vivi often thought, but that there was so much more of the past to get lost in.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“...his life was no longer on some predestined course, but had been diverted by fantastic possibility.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“There was no such thing as happiness, she thought, if one of your children was miserable. She”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium

“arranged”
― Jojo Moyes, The Peacock Emporium