Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me? — David Nicholls Just Copy Share Image
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be. — David Nicholls Exactly Copy Share Image
“Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever” — David Nicholls Gone forever Copy Share Image
“If you have to keep something a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!” — David Nicholls Doing Copy Share Image
Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend. — David Nicholls Best friend Copy Share Image
And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others — David Nicholls Course Copy Share Image
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill… — David Nicholls Debate Copy Share Image
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… — David Nicholls Curious Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or… — David Nicholls About Copy Share Image
“but i hate this date, and will always hate this day every year fromnow on whenever it comes around” — David Nicholls Date Copy Share Image
“Next morning get up early and go to the Taj Mahal. Perhaps you've heard of it, big white building named after that… — David Nicholls Taj mahal 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
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall… — David Nicholls Born Copy Share Image
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to… — David Nicholls Being Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka… — David Nicholls Dickens Copy Share Image
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and… — David Nicholls Hands 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
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 Best friend Copy Share Image
“Your last letter made me laugh so much, Em, but you should still get out of there because while it's good for… — David Nicholls Comedy Copy Share Image
“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Believe Copy Share Image
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,… — David Nicholls Celebrate Copy Share Image
“I think…" She lifts her head from his shoulder. "I think that you have it in you to be a fine young… — David Nicholls Mothers Copy Share Image
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time. — David Nicholls About 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 Bunch Copy Share Image
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you,… — David Nicholls Able Copy Share Image
And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had… — David Nicholls Long Copy Share Image
“Absurdly, I punched it because nothing hurts a jellyfish more, nothing affronts their sense of dignity, than an underwater punch in the… — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
“It’s like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult… — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something… — David Nicholls Guarantee 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 Hands Copy Share Image
“Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.” — David Nicholls Clothes Copy Share Image
I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me… — David Nicholls Capable 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
“They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright… — David Nicholls Politics Copy Share Image
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I… — David Nicholls Ageing Copy Share Image
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately, fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze… — David Nicholls Discovering Copy Share Image
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times… — David Nicholls Admired Copy Share Image
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