“I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.”— Jojo Moyes
“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”— Jojo Moyes
“I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”— Jojo Moyes
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”— Jojo Moyes
“He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.”— Jojo Moyes
“...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.”— Jojo Moyes
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”— Jojo Moyes
“I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”— Donna Lynn Hope, tumblr.com
“Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.’”— Peyton Sawyer, imdb.com
“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.”— Isabel Allende, imdb.com
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”— Miriam Adeney, goodreads.com
“Life might be difficult for a while, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.”— David Sedaris, davidsedarisbooks.com
“She lay there on a bed that inexorably became a bed of ashes and hot coals, while her imagination dwelt on every conceivable disaster, from his having forsaken her for another woman to his having, somehow, ended up in the morgue. And as the night faded from black to gray to daylight, the telephone b…”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same”— Sarah Turnbull, goodreads.com
“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes. With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire, and disappeared into the living-room.”— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“’The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”— Adam Gopnik, goodreads.com
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“I need steadfast. I need solid. I need someone who puts my needs before his own. Someone bold enough and patient enough to pursue a wild mess like me when I’m ready to run away. I need to change what I’m looking for.”— Ashley Lipscomb, thoughtcatalog.com