Diane

“If your lover lives in a building grand enough to have a servants' staircase, how long before she sends you down it?”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

“he had given up gluten and diary and daughters.”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

“D'you realise I literally haven't seen you sober for, what, three years? I've forgotten what you're like sober, you're too busy boring on about yourself or your new pals or running to the loo every ten minutes -- I don't know if it's dysentery or too much coke, but either way it's fucking rude and most of all it's boring. Even when you talk to me you're looking over my shoulder in case there's some better option...”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“For a moment, Dexter had a fleeting but perfectly clear memory of himself at his mother's funeral, curled up on the bathroom floor while Emma held onto him and stroked his hair. Yet somehow he had managed to treat this as nothing, to throw it all away for dross.”
― David Nicholls, One Day