"This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today."
- David Nicholls
"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 ab..."
"Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry."
"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 nev..."
"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. So..."
"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 I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first."
"Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.''It's the most we can hope for."