David Nicholls (writer) - One Day (2009)

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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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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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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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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

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Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

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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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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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Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

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