Quotes from David Nicholls, One Day

Keep the change, " he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

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

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and 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.

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

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

He swatted at her with his book. "Shut up and read, will you?"He lay back down and closed his eyes. Emma glanced over to check that he was smiling, and smiled too.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

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

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?

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.