156 quotes found
“Maybe we've grown out of each other.”
“No-one ever built a statue of a critic.”
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
“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”
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
“Can I say something?''Go on''I'm a little drunk''Me too. That's okay.''Just....I missed you, you know.''I missed you too.''But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you...”
“Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”
“Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.''It's the most we can hope for.”
“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had ...”
“You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years....”
“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she won...”
“For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with...”
“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasnt as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct f...”
“He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.”
“He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, ...”
“Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you”
“This is me." He handed her the precious scrap of paper. Call me or Ill call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is its not a competition. You dont lose if you phone first.”
“By contrast, my wife at fifty-two yeas old seems to me just as attractive as the day I first met her. If I were to say this out loud, she would say, 'Douglas, that's just a line. No one prefers wri...”
“Well I can tell you now that married life is not a plateau, not at all. There are ravines and great jagged peaks and hidden crevasses that send the both of you scrabbling into darkness. Then there ...”
“Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppo...”
“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 courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the...”
“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.”
