William Traynor

"And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night."

- Will Traynor, Me Before You

Biography
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live as he was left paralyzed. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.

What Will doesn't know is that Louisa Clark is about to burst into his world in a riot of color. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

His Accident
In 2007, Will Traynor had a perfect life. He has a girlfriend, a job, he's well off and handsome. On the morning of the accident, it's pouring, and Will decides to be safe, and take a taxi instead of his motorbike. "No matter what Lissa thinks, he is not a man who believes in taking unnecessary risks." (Jojo Moyes, Me Before You)

As he talks to his colleague on his phone, Will steps into the street, looking for a taxi. "He [Will] glances up at the screeching sound, the rude blare of a horn...and at the edge of his field of vision something he can't quite make out, something coming toward him at an impossible speed...the last thing he sees is a leather glove, a face under a helmet, the shock in the man's eyes mirroring his own. There is an explosion as everything fragments. And then there is nothing."

When he wakes up, Will Traynor is paralyzed, and he will be that way for the rest of his life.

Love Life
At the beginning of the book, Will has a girlfriend named Lissa, but they separate after his accident.

He becomes to have love interests in Louisa Clark.