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I think you're amazing,' someone says to someone else, but it doesn't matter who, because they're all amazing really. People are amazing.
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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
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And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.
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You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.
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In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
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What must that be like? To be admired before you've even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you're like?
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I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama...
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Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.
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She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?
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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.
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For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.
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But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.
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The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
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He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
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And once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
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You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?
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Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?
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I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.
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Surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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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.
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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
November 30, 1966
(age 57)
Bio:
David Alan Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter.
Known for:
One Day (2009)
Starter for Ten (2003)
The Understudy (2005)
From Dessalines to Duvalier (1979)
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