David Nicholls, One Day
"There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again."
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"There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again."
David Nicholls, One Day
"Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most."
David Nicholls, One Day
"All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore."
David Nicholls, One Day
"I'm just not going to do it so that we can say that we've done it. And I'm not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is 'please don't tell anyone' or 'let's forget it ever happened'. If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!"
David Nicholls, One Day
"Maybe they're in love."And is that what love looks like - all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up"Sometines it is."
David Nicholls, One Day
"And is that what love looks like -- all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up"Sometimes it is."
David Nicholls, One Day
"Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp."
David Nicholls, One Day
"Keep the change," he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?"
David Nicholls, One Day
"You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes."
David Nicholls, One Day
"Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry."
David Nicholls, One Day
"Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever…"
David Nicholls, One Day
"No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them."
David Nicholls, One Day
"I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.''Treated like what'She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else."
David Nicholls, One Day
"If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?"
David Nicholls, One Day
"A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck."
David Nicholls, One Day
"It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life."
David Nicholls, One Day
"Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--"
David Nicholls, One Day
"Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm."
David Nicholls, One Day
"What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you."
David Nicholls, One Day
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