Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide… — David Nicholls Cyanide Copy Share Image
A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty. — David Nicholls Expectations Copy Share Image
“grief is as much about regret for what you’ve never had as sadness for what you’ve lost. Anyway, we got through it… — David Nicholls Death Copy Share Image
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight… — David Nicholls Death Copy Share Image
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired,… — David Nicholls Bad day 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 Copy Share Image
“I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' ‘It’s not self-pity, it’s the facts.’ ‘My life is… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
“She had got rid of his black bedsheets, the beer mats, secretly culled his underpants and there were fewer of his famous… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.' 'What's wrong with travelling?' 'Avoiding reality more like.' 'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope… — David Nicholls Hope Copy Share Image
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless… — David Nicholls 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? What… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“You were laughing at where I work." "So? You do!" "Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity,… — David Nicholls Comedy Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, I think there are more important things in life than "relationships".” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind — David Nicholls Communication Copy Share Image
“May cause drowsiness.' - the most beautiful words in the English language. Once it was 'do you have a t-shirt I can… — David Nicholls Beautiful words Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing. — David Nicholls Amazing Copy Share Image
“Suki is the nation’s ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.” — David Nicholls Girlfriend Copy Share Image
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… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so… — David Nicholls Book Copy Share Image
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“And is that what love looks like -- all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?" "Sometimes it is.” — David Nicholls Love Copy Share Image
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of… — David Nicholls British Copy Share Image
“I’m not expressing myself very well—’ ‘Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that’s the problem—” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference. You know, actually change something.” — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it… — David Nicholls Adaptation Copy Share Image
“I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she said. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
