…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama... — David Nicholls Appetite Copy Share Image
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference — David Nicholls Differences Copy Share Image
But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex! — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each… — David Nicholls Facts Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is… — David Nicholls Comedy Copy Share Image
“The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly,… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.” — David Nicholls Charismatic Copy Share Image
“They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls Consolation Copy Share Image
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“An amusing story? She jabs the call button as if poking an eye. She doesn’t want an amusing story, she wants change,… — David Nicholls Anecdotes Copy Share Image
“No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die… — David Nicholls Friend Copy Share Image
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life.… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“The enemy, self-consciousness, is creeping up on them and Gibbsy or Biggsy is the first to crack, declaring that the music is… — David Nicholls Enemy Copy Share Image
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Sympathy for the spinster. I'm perfectly content, thank you. And I refuse to be defined by my boyfriend. Or lack of. Once… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Change lives through art, maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience… — David Nicholls Art Copy Share Image
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at… — David Nicholls Ability Copy Share Image
“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise… — David Nicholls Ballet dance Copy Share Image
“I think you're scared of being happy, Emma. I think you think that the natural way of things is for your life… — David Nicholls Money Copy Share Image
“What was it, she wondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan life at her? As soon as she'd met him… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
“Live each day as if it's our last', that was the conventional advice, but really who had the energy for that? What… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“And so Emma Morley walked home in the evening light, trailing her disappointment behind her. The day was cooling off now, and… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to listen to recording of piano sonatas and know who's playing. I want to go to classical… — David Nicholls Books Copy Share Image
