Diane

“The main thing is that I think about you a lot, that's all. Dex and Em, Em and Dex. Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Now there's a war in Europe and she has personally done nothing to stop it. Too busy shopping for furniture.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“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