David Nicholls Quotes

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• If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
• 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 easier because you…
• Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity…
• Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
• At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
• I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
• I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly…
• I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking…
• If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me,…
• He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or…
• Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his…
• And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise…
• And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of…
• This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What…
• She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love,…
• You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented…
• Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
• ...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she…
• You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this.…
• This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

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