You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, I think there are more important things in life than "relationships".” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool… — David Nicholls 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 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 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something… — 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 Copy Share Image
“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be… — 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
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here… — 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
“He wanted to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications. He wanted to live life in such a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer… — David Nicholls 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 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 Copy Share Image
“What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“They ended up in a amusement arcade on Old Compton Street, where Nora insisted Stephen join her on one of those dance-step… — David Nicholls 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 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 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
“Suki is the nation’s ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . . — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free… — 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 Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger… — David Nicholls 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 by writing… — 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 on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking… — 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 capsule. — David Nicholls 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. It feels… — David Nicholls 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 if it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“How would she fill the days? She had no idea. The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and… — 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 just a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
![“All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.” quote by David Nicholls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/564/david-nicholls-873_action_all-his-words-and-actions-would-now-be-f_762603.jpg)
