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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. (David Nicholls)
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? View quote
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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. View quote
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I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything. View quote
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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets. View quote
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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. View quote
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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea. View quote
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She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. View quote
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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. View quote
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend. View quote
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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time. (David Nicholls)
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel - independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. View quote
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A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation. View quote
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. View quote
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...and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other. View quote
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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? View quote
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely. View quote
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The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same. View quote
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Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (David Nicholls)
A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't keep fighting battles that are already lost. View quote
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Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? View quote
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David Nicholls

David Nicholls - Image
Photo: putnik, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: English Novelist
Born: November 30, 1966
Quotes count: 114

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