“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.”

—  David Nicholls, book One Day

Source: One Day

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "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 …" by David Nicholls?
David Nicholls photo
David Nicholls79
British writer 1966

Related quotes

Nicholas Sparks photo

“But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Cassandra Clare photo

“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare photo

“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Bernard Cornwell photo

“She had been restless and forceful, a killer of the border hills, yet she had a childlike faith in love. She had given herself to him and never doubted the wisdom of the gift as he had sometimes doubted it. She had kept the faith, and she was dead.”

Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer

Major Richard Sharpe (describing his murdered wife, Teresa Moreno) p. 339
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)

Ken Follett photo

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

Markus Zusak photo

“At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Brian W. Aldiss photo

“She had tried to love him.”

Brian W. Aldiss book Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

“She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Carl Sagan photo

“She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 23 (p. 407)

“Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.”

Shannon Stacey (1972) american writer

Source: Yours to Keep

Related topics