She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man — David Nicholls Limits Copy Share Image
She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend. — David Nicholls Best friend Copy Share Image
So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs — David Nicholls Career Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like… — David Nicholls Funny Copy Share Image
“Live each day as if it’s your last’, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that?” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake… — David Nicholls Failure Copy Share Image
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into… — David Nicholls Emotion Copy Share Image
“Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You… — David Nicholls Competition Copy Share Image
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Books Copy Share Image
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained… — 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
“What are you going to do with your life?’ In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“These words on the screen represented her latest project, an attempt at a series of commercial, discreetly feminist crime novels. She had… — David Nicholls Books Copy Share Image
“I get this occasionally, the need to define myself as a something-or-other, and at various times in my life I have wondered… — David Nicholls Hole in my heart Copy Share Image
“This not-hotness had weighed heavily on his mind, but he tried to dismiss it as envy. Envy was just the tax you… — David Nicholls Envy Copy Share Image
“Sylvie's sort of pregnant. Well not sort of. She is. Pregnant. Actually pregnant with a baby.' 'Oh Dexter! Do you know the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Em, we've known each other five or six years now, but two years properly, as, you know, 'friends', which isn't that long… — David Nicholls Money Copy Share Image
“But Dexter blinked hard, shook his head then nudged her hand with his. ‘So what I thought we’d do for the next… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“He hoped to be successful, to make his parents proud and to sleep with more than one woman at the same time,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“And is that what love looks like - all wet mouth sand your skirt rucked up?” — David Nicholls Love Copy Share Image
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
