These Me Before You Quotes will teach you how life is worth living for no matter what.
Me Before You is a romance novel written by Jojo Moyes which was published on 5 January 2012 in the United Kingdom. After You and Still Me are its sequels which were released on 29 September 2015, January 2018 respectively.
A movie has been made on this novel with the same name which was released in 2016. Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin have played the role of Louisa Clark and Will Traynor beautifully. The film received mixed reviews from the public and was a hit on the box office earning $208 million worldwide.
The plot focuses on Louisa Clark and Will Traynor. Where Louisa Clark is a small-town girl, goes from one job to another with no proper direction in life. Will Traynor is a banker who gets tied to a wheelchair after an accident that changed his world in a blink of an eye.
When Louisa Clark is hired as Will’s caretaker, their worlds collided and they fall in love with each other eventually. And when Louisa found out that Will is going to end his life, She decided to do everything in her power to show Will that life is beautiful and worth living for.
Here we are sharing with you a collection of Me Before You Quotes from the book and movie for you to know how love changes your life and you get only one life, live it fully.
Me Before You Quotes
“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“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, Me Before You
“If he has love, he will feel he can go on. Without it, I would have sunk many times over.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“It’s the fact that when you spend all day in proximity to someone, there is no escape from their moods. Or your own.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places in your memory that you can go to.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I can tell you the exact day I stopped being fearless.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Hey Clark’, he said.’Tell me something good’. I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and 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. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Me Before You Movie Quotes
“You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I realized then that there was actual relief in his expression. That he was pleased to see me in a way he wasn’t actually going to be able to say. And I told myself that it was going to have to be enough. I would do the thing he had asked for. That would have to be enough.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I felt a sudden wave of sympathy for her. It couldn’t be easy being my mother.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“You’re having another unnervingly quiet day. What happened to ‘chatty to the point of vaguely irritating’?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I thought of Will telling me if I didn’t stop bloody whistling he’d be forced to run me over.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“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?
But I had promised.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Will stared out the windows like a dog denied a walk.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Me Before You Book Quotes
“Everyone I knew hated Monday mornings, but I never minded them.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“But surely if you loved someone it was your job to stick with him? To help him through the depression? In sickness and in health, and all that?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I don’t know what I think. All I know is that most of the time, I would rather be with him than anyone else I know.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“It’s like he’s determined not to see the good in anything.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“If he has love, he will feel he can go on.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Clark. Promise me you won’t spend the rest of your life stuck around this bloody parody of a place mat.” “Promise you? Why?” I tried to make my voice light. “Where are you going?” “I just…can’t bear the thought of you staying around here forever.” He swallowed. “You’re too bright. Too interesting.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“But if we don’t have faith that he can feel better, even get better, then how is he supposed to keep the faith that good things might happen?” Nathan”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Louisa Clark had become, although neither of us said it, our only chance of keeping him alive.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Me Before You Lines and Quotes
“Sometimes it even seemed like a relief to him that there was someone prepared to be rude to him, to contradict him or tell him he was being horrible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“He had this way of talking where you could never quite be sure that he wasn’t mocking you.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.
I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn’t even begin to understand.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I know it’s not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say is that you make… 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 diminished-than with anyone else in the world.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“How could I explain to this girl what Will and I had been to each other,
the way I felt that no person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again?
How could she understand that losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I liked the exoticism his travels gave him, the unknownness. He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it was weirdly seductive.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I had liked men, sure, and wanted to sleep with them, but sometimes I wondered if I was missing some sensitivity chip. I couldn’t imagine crying over anyone I’d been with.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Me Before You Dialogues and Quotes
“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off of someone.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak. “How am I supposed to live with that?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Time slowed, and stilled. It was just the two of us, me murmuring in the empty, sunlit room. Will didn’t say much. He didn’t answer back, or add a dry comment, or scoff. He nodded occasionally, his head pressed against mine, and murmured, or let out a small sound that could have been satisfaction at another good memory.
“It has been, the best six months of my entire life.”
“Funnily enough, Clark, mine too.”
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“… if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window–is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person’”
“But, I’m not.”
“How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Me Before You Phrases and Quotes
“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.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning -Will Traynor <3”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I let him know a hurt had been amended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone, there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“ And I don’t want to look at you every day, to see you naked, to watch you wandering around the annex in your crazy dresses and not…not be able to do what I want with you. Oh, Clark, if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now. And I…I can’t live with that knowledge. I can’t. It’s Not who I am. I can’t be the kind of man who just…accepts.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“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, Me Before You
“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn’t, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me….. we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Will Traynor Me Before You Quotes
“Don’t think of me too often. I don’t want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“You know, you would never have let those breasts so close to me if I weren’t in a wheelchair,’ he murmured.
I looked back at him steadily. ‘You would never have looked at my breasts if you hadn’t been in a wheelchair.’
‘What? Of course I would.’
‘Nope. You would have been far too busy looking at the tall blonde girls with the endless legs and the big hair, the ones who can smell an expense account at forty paces. And anyway, I wouldn’t have been here. I would have been serving the drinks over there. One of the Invisibles.’
He blinked.
‘Well? I’m right, aren’t I?’
Will glanced over at the bar, then back at me. ‘Yes. But in my defense, Clark, I was an arse.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I am not plain, but I don’t think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don’t have that graceful thing going on.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know you shouldn’t be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation finds it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Me Before You Famous Lines and Quotes
“Knowledge is power,”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Why do women always have to go over and over a situation until it becomes a problem?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing things living, glowing, captivated by their own temporary beauty.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I’m giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy anymore, but you do.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I was so furious, you see, that all around me were things that could move and bend and grow and reproduce, and my son – my vital, charismatic, beautiful boy – was just this thing. Immobile, wilted, bloodied, suffering. Their beauty seemed like an obscenity. I screamed and I screamed and I swore – words I didn’t know I knew – until Steven came out and stood, his hand resting on my shoulder, waiting until he could be sure that I would be silent again. He didn’t understand, you see. He hadn’t worked it out yet. That Will would try again. That our lives would be spent in a state of constant vigilance, waiting for the next time, waiting to see what horror he could inflict upon himself. We would have to see the world through his eyes – the potential poisons, the sharp objects, the inventiveness with which he could finish the job that damned motorcyclist had started. Our lives had to shrink to fit around the potential for that one act. And he had the advantage – he had nothing else to think about, you see? Two weeks later, I told Will, “Yes”. Of course, I did. What else could I have done ?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“It’s not a matter of giving you a chance. I’ve watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me. I don’t want you to be tied to me, to my hospital appointments, to the restrictions on my life. I don’t want you to miss out on the things someone else could give you.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I was twenty-six years old and I wasn’t really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn’t look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I know we can do this. I know it’s not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And 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, Me Before You quotes
“I was good at keeping secrets from my parents (it’s one of the things we learn while growing up, after all).”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You quotes
Me Before You Best Quotes
“They say you only really appreciate a garden once you reach a certain age, and I suppose there is a truth in that. It’s probably something to do with the great circle of life. There seems to be something miraculous about seeing the relentless optimism of new growth after the bleakness of winter, a kind of joy in the difference every year, the way nature chooses to show off different parts of the garden to its full advantage.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I should have listened to my father. “Want to know the true definition of the triumph of hope over experience?” he would say. “Plan a fun family day out.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Don’t let that thing define you” -Will Traynor”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I wondered if she knew that everything she said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something she’d actually cultivated deliberately. I didn’t think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“The worst thing about working as a caregiver is not what you might think. It’s not the lifting and cleaning, the medicines and wipes, and the distant but somehow always perceptible smell of disinfectant. It’s not even the fact that most people assume you’re only doing it because you really aren’t smart enough to do anything else. It’s the fact that when you spend all day in proximity to someone, there is no escape from their moods. Or your own.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“If you’d bothered to ask me, Clark, if you’d bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn’t bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“You’ve scored on my heart…”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Me Before You Love Quotes
“Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let that night be the thing that defines you. You have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“There are things you don’t notice until you accompany someone with a wheelchair. One is how rubbish most pavements are, pockmarked with badly patched holes, or just plain uneven. Walking slowly next to Will as he wheeled himself along, I noticed how every uneven slab caused him to jolt painfully, or how often he had to steer carefully round some potential obstacle. Nathan pretended not to notice, but I saw him watching too. Will just looked grim-faced and resolute. The other thing is how inconsiderate most drivers are. They park up against the cutouts on the pavement, or so close together that there is no way for a wheelchair to actually cross the road. I was shocked, a couple of times even tempted to leave some rude note tucked into a windscreen wiper, but Nathan and Will seemed used to it. Nathan pointed out a suitable crossing place and, each of us flanking Will, we finally crossed.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“The morning dragged and lasted two years.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“It was only when we brought Will back home, once the annex was adapted and ready, that I could see a point in making it beautiful again. I needed to give my son something to look at. I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand. I couldn’t say that to him, of course—Will and I have never been able to say much to each other—but I wanted to show him. A silent promise, if you like, that there was a bigger picture, a brighter future.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You quotes
“Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“My sister actually has a “thinking face.” It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the swirling mess of my thoughts.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
“They might sound revolting to you, but astonishingly, Will Traynor, not all girls get dressed just to please men.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Did you like Me Before You quotes?
These Me Before You quotes will make you cry, melt your heart and also motivate you to live your life well. This is a beautiful story and how Clark is trying everything in her power to convince Will to not end his life is heartbreaking.
It’s difficult to lose someone you love and it’s true that when you lose someone, you lose a part of yourself with them but life goes on. Life goes on when your heart is broken. Life goes on when the person you love died. All we should do is live, pass one day at a time, and wish time to heal us as soon as possible.
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