Jojo Moyes Quotes

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I have no issues with my identity.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I know what my identity is.

We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do.

We don't know what change is because we don't know what the hell we are. If I wake up tomorrow and do the exact opposite of everything I do today, am I a changed person? Or am I simply the same person who decided to try something different?

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.