“A él le habían pasado demasiadas cosas, y a ella demasiado pocas.” — David Nicholls Amor Copy Share Image
“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Poetry Copy Share Image
“and not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him.” — David Nicholls Dislike Copy Share Image
“When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.” — David Nicholls Hope Copy Share Image
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. — David Nicholls Morning Copy Share Image
I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right. — David Nicholls Best friend Copy Share Image
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls Anecdote Copy Share Image
“grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. As” — David Nicholls Death 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 Consolation 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 Change 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 Achieve Copy Share Image
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand… — David Nicholls Again and again Copy Share Image
“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die… — David Nicholls Friend Copy Share Image
“I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.” — David Nicholls Charismatic Copy Share Image
“The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly,… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
“And by the time the train pulls into the station, I find myself actually relieved that Emily's only a figment of my… — David Nicholls Fitness Copy Share Image
“Change lives through art, maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience… — David Nicholls Art Copy Share Image
“The enemy, self-consciousness, is creeping up on them and Gibbsy or Biggsy is the first to crack, declaring that the music is… — David Nicholls Enemy 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 Action Copy Share Image
“No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being… — David Nicholls Buddhism Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — David Nicholls Firm 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 Smart and funny Copy Share Image
When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that… — David Nicholls Always Copy Share Image
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 Bigs Copy Share Image
“So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing;… — David Nicholls Acts of love 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 Dance floor Copy Share Image
He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but… — David Nicholls Bed Copy Share Image
“Every week seems to bring another luxuriantly creamy envelope, the thickness of a letter-bomb, containing a complex invitation – a triumph of… — David Nicholls Envelope Copy Share Image
“She was talking too loud now, shouting almost, and a long silence followed. Why was she being like this? He was only… — David Nicholls Bad day Copy Share Image
“They spoke to each other in strange, strangulated voices, and lost the knack of making each other laugh, jeering at each other… — David Nicholls Dexter 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 Caught in the middle Copy Share Image