I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — 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 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 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
I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But… — 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
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
Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign… — 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