You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls Anecdote Copy Share Image
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. — David Nicholls Age 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
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Poem Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better… — David Nicholls 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 Copy Share Image
“Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake… — David Nicholls Failure Copy Share Image
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like… — David Nicholls Funny 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 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 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 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 Being nice Copy Share Image
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed… — David Nicholls Friendship 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 Friend 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
“An amusing story? She jabs the call button as if poking an eye. She doesn’t want an amusing story, she wants change,… — David Nicholls Anecdotes Copy Share Image
All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under… — David Nicholls Action 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
“What was it, she wondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan life at her? As soon as she'd met him… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was… — David Nicholls Caught in the middle Copy Share Image
“Recently he has noticed idiocy creeping up on him. His resolve to keep his head on straight, his feet on the ground,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing;… — David Nicholls Acts of love 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 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? What… — David Nicholls Change 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 Change Copy Share Image
![“All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.” quote by David Nicholls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/david-nicholls-873_action_all-his-words-and-actions-would-now-be-f_762603.jpg)
