The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same. — David Nicholls Girl Copy Share Image
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“She could see the words Calvin Klein against the brown hair on the small of his back and it occurred to her… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Josh likes to say he put the funk in 'functional'. Personally I think he just put the ass in 'embarrassing', but, hey,… — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you! — David Nicholls Adventure Copy Share Image
“And maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
“...if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would… — David Nicholls Candle Copy Share Image
As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates.… — David Nicholls Behaviour Copy Share Image
“Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“It’s like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult… — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
“To be honest, I don’t think you deserved her, but I don’t think any of us deserved her really. She was always… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to… — David Nicholls Being Copy Share Image
“She began walking again, south towards The Mound. 'Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly,… — David Nicholls Art Copy Share Image
“I think…" She lifts her head from his shoulder. "I think that you have it in you to be a fine young… — David Nicholls Mothers Copy Share Image
“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Independence is the luxury of all those people who are too confident, and busy, and popular, and attractive to be just plain… — David Nicholls Dad died Copy Share Image
“The last year had been a series of wrong turns, bad choices, abandoned projects. There was the all-girl band in which she… — David Nicholls Bad choices Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“And sometimes I get carried away, that's all. If you weren't so...judgemental all the time-" "Am I? I don't think I am… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.” — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at… — David Nicholls Better person Copy Share Image
The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty… — David Nicholls Attraction Copy Share Image
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls Actor Copy Share Image
“grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. As” — David Nicholls Death Copy Share Image
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right. — David Nicholls Best friend Copy Share Image
“Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? You were once, weren't you? In the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you… — David Nicholls Acting Copy Share Image
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Faint-hearted as usual, she had left it too late. In the future, I’ll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I… — David Nicholls Faint hearted Copy Share Image
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately, fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
