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
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
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference — David Nicholls Differences 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
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
“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
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are… — David Nicholls Accepting Copy Share Image
As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew… — David Nicholls Brown 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
Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for. — David Nicholls Hope 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
“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
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
“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
“but i hate this date, and will always hate this day every year fromnow on whenever it comes around” — David Nicholls 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
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
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the… — David Nicholls Emma Copy Share Image
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was… — David Nicholls Atmosphere 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
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy — David Nicholls Capability 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
