Excerpts: After You (Jojo Moyes)

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-So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. 

You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: 

the flashbacks, the sleepless night, the endless running over events in your head, 

asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, 

whether you could have changed things, had you done it even a degree differently. 

-...enough times will actually make it okay. -Lou

-Allow yourself moments of happiness. -Lou

-I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody's centre, their reason of staying.
I saw that I could be enough. -Lou

-We don't know what will happen. Which is why we have to take chances while we can.
And ...I think this might be yours. -Sam

-...it's okay to feel sad. Or lost. Or angry. It's okay to feel a whole host of things that other people might not understand,
and often for a long time. Everyone has his or her own journey. We don't judge." -Marc

-I hope if you're looking down, and you can see me, you're glad. That I exist.
Because me being here sort of means you're still here. -Lily

-I let mine go. -Lou