Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

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

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

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

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.