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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Whatever
Life
Happened

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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.
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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
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He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.
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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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