“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 book One DaySource: One Day
“Do you miss her?''Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.”David Nicholls book One DaySource: One Day
“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.”David Nicholls book One DaySource: One Day
“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.”David Nicholls book One DaySource: One Day
“These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.”David Nicholls book One DaySource: One Day
“What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?”David Nicholls book Starter for TenSource: Starter for Ten
“The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.”David Nicholls book One DaySource: One Day
“Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.”David Nicholls book UsSource: Us