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
“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
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
“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
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 can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you. — 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 can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — 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
“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
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
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
“Well I can tell you now that married life is not a plateau, not at all. There are ravines and great jagged… — 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
“What was it, she wondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan life at her? As soon as she'd met him… — 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
“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
The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty… — 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
“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
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
