Someone Else's Shoes Quotes

“But if you cannot change your situation, then you have no choice. You can only change how you think about it.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“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.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“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.” Dr. Kovitz”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“There are some advantages to being an American woman over forty who no longer has any fucks left on the shelf,”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“Sam feels the loss of her old life like a wound. The world is full of lasts, she thinks. The last time you pick up your child. The last time you hug a parent. The last time you cook dinner in a house full of the people you love. The last time you make love to the husband you once adored who will walk away from you because you turned into a crazy, resentful hormone-fueled idiot. And with all these moments you don’t know that this will be the last or you would be overwhelmed by the poignancy of them, hang on to them like someone unhinged, bury your face in them, never let them go.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“You have self-respect. You have friends. You have satisfaction every day, of a job well done. You have agency over your own life. These are not small things.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“The world is full of lasts,”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“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.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“women trade compliments or troubles like currency. Women smile understandingly at your confidences, then use them against you like weapons. Men she finds predictable, and Nisha likes predictability.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“suddenly in the throng, arms up, clapping to the music, dancing in the way that middle-aged people do, badly, but with the confidence that comes from the fact that they no longer care, that sometimes just the act of dancing, letting go in a room of people while a beat thumps through your veins, is an act of rebellion against the dark, against the tough times that will inevitably come tomorrow.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“Oh, my God, my darling, how did you survive this man? “I guess it’s like the frog in boiling water, right?” Nisha says. “No marriage starts off bad. I guess by the time you realize how weird it’s gotten you’re up to your neck.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“How many of the decisions you make each day are because you actually want to do something, and how many are to avoid the consequences of not doing it?” Nearly everything she does these days is just to stop something else happening. If she doesn’t keep her steps up she will get fat. If she doesn’t walk the dog he will wee in the hall. Sometimes Sam feels she has been so conditioned to be useful every minute of every day that there is almost nothing she does in which she is not simultaneously keeping a subconscious tally.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“How many of the decisions you make each day are because you actually want to do something, and how many are to avoid the consequences of not doing it?”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“She tries to imagine Carl getting his pubic hair lasered to make sure he was attractive enough for her, and it’s so unthinkable she laughs out loud. And now, because she is female and did all the things expected of her, she’s been discarded for a younger, supposedly sweeter model.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“She thinks about the ways in which she has been expected to conform to some ideal that takes endless, endless effort just to stay married: keep your figure, create a perfect home environment, be interesting, have great hair every day (but none anywhere else), wear shoes that make your feet hurt, lacy underwear that cuts your hoo-ha in two, make sure your bedroom antics are porn-star level (even if your husband seems to think the act of getting a hard-on should be enough for his side).”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“Maybe you have to think about all the things about your old life that you didn’t enjoy and say, ‘Okay, so here is an opportunity to start again. Perfect freedom. No ties. Maybe this is the dream.’ Maybe one day you will even be happier than you were.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“If you cannot fix it,” he says, “maybe you have to look at it differently.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“Imagine being the kind of woman who wears these shoes every day, she thinks. Imagine living the kind of life where you only ever walk short distances across marble floors. Imagine having nothing to worry about except whether your pedicure matches your expensive shoes.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“Sam had observed some years previously that her mother was uninterested in the minutiae of Sam’s own life beyond how it might affect her or Phil, whom she considers the finest of sons-in-law.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“I was wearing those shoes because…well, because sometimes you need to feel like a different version of yourself.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“No, I’m not tougher. I’m not moodier…I’m just bloody tired. But if I give up and lie on the sofa all day the whole damn thing will fall apart at the seams.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“her”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“She is relieved that he is not in her cubicle, one buttock resting on the corner of her desk, his head tilted in fake concern.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“she speaks only to give him directions. We need to turn here or It’s just by that”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“still”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“high she retains inside her for a”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“So your”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“an imaginary mental lid on”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“There are some advantages to being an American woman over forty who no longer has any fucks left on the shelf, and he can see it.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes