The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.
David NichollsI would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
David NichollsWhat must that be like? To be admired before youโve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what youโre like?
David NichollsAs a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.
David NichollsAlice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.
David Nicholls