"Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four oâ€™clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isnâ€™t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: â€˜get in a taxi nowâ€™ or â€˜I need to see you, we need to talkâ€™. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel â€“ independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic."

Source : David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.106, Hachette UK

David Nicholls

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“I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never control what's happening.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
“When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?”

Source : "Brady Quinn on Jovan Belcher tragedy: An eloquent moment for Chiefs QB" by Cindy Boren, www.washingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.
“Block out all the negative energy, and just love.”
“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”

Source : "The Meaning of God in Human Experience". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. IV : The Retirement of the Intellect, p. 38, 1912.
“From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.”
“When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Words don't come easily, like forgive me.”

Source : Song: Baby Can I Hold You, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988

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