“She made you decent. And in return you made her so, so happy.” — David Nicholls Decent Copy Share Image
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place — David Nicholls Doing 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 Life Copy Share Image
Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun. — David Nicholls Emotion Copy Share Image
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. — David Nicholls Age Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films. — David Nicholls Cinema Copy Share Image
He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him. — David Nicholls Found Copy Share Image
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry. — David Nicholls Dexter 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… — David Nicholls Danger Copy Share Image
This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will… — David Nicholls Call me Copy Share Image
“She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not… — David Nicholls Heart Copy Share Image
“Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? You were once, weren't you? In the… — David Nicholls Just love Copy Share Image
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit… — David Nicholls Be good Copy Share Image
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls Actor 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 Confidence Copy Share Image
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… — David Nicholls Biting Copy Share Image
“Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a… — David Nicholls Emma-morley Copy Share Image
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my… — David Nicholls Achieve Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Books 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 Became 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… — David Nicholls Absent Copy Share Image
For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get… — David Nicholls Cards Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to listen to recording of piano sonatas and know who's playing. I want to go to classical… — David Nicholls Books 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… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“She began walking again, south towards The Mound. 'Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“I get this occasionally, the need to define myself as a something-or-other, and at various times in my life I have wondered… — David Nicholls Hole in my heart Copy Share Image
“Sylvie's sort of pregnant. Well not sort of. She is. Pregnant. Actually pregnant with a baby.' 'Oh Dexter! Do you know the… — David Nicholls Coming to an end Copy Share Image
“This not-hotness had weighed heavily on his mind, but he tried to dismiss it as envy. Envy was just the tax you… — David Nicholls Envy Copy Share Image
“What are you going to do with your life?’ In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“These words on the screen represented her latest project, an attempt at a series of commercial, discreetly feminist crime novels. She had… — David Nicholls Books Copy Share Image
And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared. — David Nicholls Caring 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 Happy Copy Share Image
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did. — David Nicholls Degrees Copy Share Image
The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same. — David Nicholls Girl Copy Share Image
“Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.” — David Nicholls Felt Like Copy Share Image
“I don’t think there’s anything we can do, is there? We either stop or we carry on.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice to you?” — David Nicholls Conspiracy Copy Share Image
