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

You must do what you enjoy.

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

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?

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

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.