Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I tell you what it is. It's...when I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day in… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger… — David Nicholls Copy Share
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking… — David Nicholls Copy Share
You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule. — David Nicholls Copy Share
“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought. It feels… — David Nicholls Copy Share
“Live each day as if it's our last', that was the conventional advice, but really who had the energy for that? What if it… — David Nicholls Copy Share
“How would she fill the days? She had no idea. The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and… — David Nicholls Copy Share
“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and… — David Nicholls Copy Share
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a… — David Nicholls Copy Share
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice… — David Nicholls Copy Share
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you — David Nicholls Copy Share
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the… — David Nicholls Copy Share
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on… — David Nicholls Copy Share
