David Nicholls: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.”

“People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Dont run before you can walk”

“Envy was just the tax you paid on success.”

“… 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.”

“She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man”

“The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.”

“Today. This bright new day that awaits us”

“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.”

“For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must….”

“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.”

“She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.”

“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.”

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.”

“Things should look right, Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary”

“You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.”