Quotes from book

One Day

“Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose I you phone first.”

“Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…”

“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.”

“This isn't a letter, it's a gift.”

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”

“But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

“She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy”

“Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.”

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

“…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.”

“If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”

“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.”

“Dont run before you can walk”

“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”

“… if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of Confidence. Either that or a scented candle.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I think reality is overrated.”