Quotes from book

One Day

“Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you”

“If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?”

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.”

“Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?”

“As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.”

“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”

“I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

“And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.”

“Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.”

“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.”

“You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay… That’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four.”

“Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.'
'It's the most we can hope for.”

“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?”

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

“The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.”

“… and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind”

“Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.”

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

“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.”