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
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. — David Nicholls Character Copy Share Image
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it… — David Nicholls Confidence Copy Share Image
“Em, we've known each other five or six years now, but two years properly, as, you know, 'friends', which isn't that long… — David Nicholls Money 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
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
“There’s a particular grubbiness that comes with travel. You start showered and fresh in clean and comfortable clothes, upbeat and hopeful that… — David Nicholls Too far 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
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. — David Nicholls Morning 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
“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
“Every week seems to bring another luxuriantly creamy envelope, the thickness of a letter-bomb, containing a complex invitation – a triumph of… — David Nicholls Happy couple Copy Share Image
“Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.” — David Nicholls Gone forever 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 Humor Copy Share Image
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls Anecdotes Copy Share Image
“So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?' 'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.' 'Do girls… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just… — David Nicholls Funny 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
“Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice to you?” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very… — David Nicholls Being Copy Share Image
“Live each day as if it’s your last’, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that?” — David Nicholls Live each day 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 Copy Share Image
