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- If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home.
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
- She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ever hear what a person did not say?
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
- Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
- Hannibal Buress
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