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One Day (2009)
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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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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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But they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
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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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November 30, 1966
(age 57)
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