“It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one. I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history.”
""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.""
- Jojo Moyes
Love
"Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay."
- Jojo Moyes
Courage
"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."
- Jojo Moyes
Courage
"You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible."
- Jojo Moyes
Motivation
"Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy."
- Jojo Moyes
Adversity
"Love sees not with the eyes, but with the heart."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love