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Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?
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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
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In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn't thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
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Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN
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The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It's just that they don't love me back.
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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
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Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.
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People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.
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Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.
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But they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
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She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
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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.
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These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.
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And Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference
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Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.
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Born:
November 30, 1966
(age 57)
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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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