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One Day (2009)
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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
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As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.
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She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. 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.
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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
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Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.
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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
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Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.
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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?
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You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.
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Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
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Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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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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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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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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As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.
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November 30, 1966
(age 57)
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