“And is that what love looks like - all wet mouth sand your skirt rucked up?” — David Nicholls Love Copy Share Image
For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . . — David Nicholls Conviction Copy Share Image
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates.… — David Nicholls Behaviour Copy Share Image
“Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You… — David Nicholls 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
“When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.” — David Nicholls Stop trying Copy Share Image
“Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.” — David Nicholls 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 Music Copy Share Image
“A él le habían pasado demasiadas cosas, y a ella demasiado pocas.” — David Nicholls 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
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight… — David Nicholls Death Copy Share Image
“What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at… — David Nicholls Ability 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
“And maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough… — David Nicholls Change the world 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
I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing. — David Nicholls Matter Copy Share Image
Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN — David Nicholls Awake 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 One-day-david-nicholls Copy Share Image
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll… — David Nicholls Blackbirds 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
“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
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
Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun. — David Nicholls Emotion Copy Share Image
