“I love him, she thought, I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice to you?” — David Nicholls Conspiracy Copy Share Image
“Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I don’t think there’s anything we can do, is there? We either stop or we carry on.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared. — David Nicholls Caring Copy Share Image
“Brian: I love books Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?” — David Nicholls Book Copy Share Image
“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.” — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what… — David Nicholls Ability Copy Share Image
“So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?' 'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.' 'Do girls… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of… — David Nicholls Communication Copy Share Image
“At some point, I'd like to have an origina l idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but… — David Nicholls Creativity Copy Share Image
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless she feels a great wave of affection for Dexter Mayhew. In eight years not a day has gone by when she… — David Nicholls Best friend Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just… — David Nicholls Funny Copy Share Image
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very… — David Nicholls Being Copy Share Image
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Who me? God, no, I'm terrible . . . " Then, just as an experiment, I say, "And, besides, I don't think… — David Nicholls Actor Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the ultrasound scan is something that only parents can appreciate, but Emma had seen these things before and knew… — David Nicholls Beauty Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless,… — David Nicholls Anger Copy Share Image
“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was… — David Nicholls Caught in the middle Copy Share Image
“They spoke to each other in strange, strangulated voices, and lost the knack of making each other laugh, jeering at each other… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Lonely’ is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does… — David Nicholls Loneliness Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Adulthood Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“She was talking too loud now, shouting almost, and a long silence followed. Why was she being like this? He was only… — David Nicholls Bad day Copy Share Image
“Every week seems to bring another luxuriantly creamy envelope, the thickness of a letter-bomb, containing a complex invitation – a triumph of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films. — David Nicholls Cinema Copy Share Image
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. — David Nicholls Age Copy Share Image
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun. — David Nicholls Emotion Copy Share Image
