For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls About Copy Share Image
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately. — David Nicholls Courage 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 Arms 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
…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each… — David Nicholls Facts Copy Share Image
“You can’t expect people to build their lives around you” — David Nicholls David-nicholls Copy Share Image
“For Stephen, London was less a city that never slept, more a city that got a good nine hours.” — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
“Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake… — David Nicholls Failure Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls 19th century 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 Life Copy Share Image
“I think you're scared of being happy, Emma. I think you think that the natural way of things is for your life… — David Nicholls Money Copy Share Image
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. — David Nicholls People Copy Share Image
“And sometimes I get carried away, that's all. If you weren't so...judgemental all the time-" "Am I? I don't think I am… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“He wonders if he still might tell her that he loves her or, more tentatively, that he 'thinks he might be in… — David Nicholls Love 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 Building Copy Share Image
Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what… — David Nicholls Ability Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you… — David Nicholls Acting Copy Share Image
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be. — David Nicholls Bad food Copy Share Image
“Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions.” — 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 Life 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 Made 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 Ability Copy Share Image
“Às vezes era capaz de me fazer vomitar a mim próprio, a sério que sim.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
