{"author":"Jojo Moyes","author_id":"Jojo+Moyes","total_quotes":91,"quotes":[{"text":"Just live well. Just live.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["life-lessons"],"id":2654,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["children","love","motherhood","mothers"],"id":5815,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["best-friends","friends","life","love-friendship"],"id":6578,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"He dropped his head and kissed her. He kisses her and it was a kiss of utter certainty, the kind of kiss during which monarchs die and whole continents fall without your even noticing.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["kiss"],"id":7784,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["after-you","bad-days","good-days","grief","jojo-moyes","journey","me-before-you"],"id":15666,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?-Lou.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["heartbreak"],"id":16053,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["love","family","great "],"id":24512,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["life","history","school "],"id":25683,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"I'm not letting go of you' - Sam.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["after-you","jojo-moyes","love","romance","sam-to-louisa","you-before-me"],"id":29232,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"},{"text":"No. Really. I've thought about it a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they're not living, breathing people any more. It's not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It's just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a whole. I don't know. It's like you become... A doughnut instead of a bun.","author":"Jojo Moyes","tags":["grief","grief-and-loss","loss"],"id":33479,"author_id":"Jojo+Moyes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":91,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}