I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“A él le habían pasado demasiadas cosas, y a ella demasiado pocas.” — David Nicholls Amor Copy Share Image
“The tourist’s paradox: how to find somewhere that’s free of people exactly like us.” — David Nicholls Free people Copy Share Image
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it — David Nicholls Heartache Copy Share Image
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. — David Nicholls Morning Copy Share Image
“When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.” — David Nicholls Hope Copy Share Image
“and not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. As” — David Nicholls Death Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you… — David Nicholls Acting Copy Share Image
“Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? You were once, weren't you? In the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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
“...if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would… — David Nicholls Candle Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you! — David Nicholls Adventure 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
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls Actor Copy Share Image
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here… — David Nicholls Confidence 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 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 Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — 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 Smart and funny 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
“Nevertheless she feels a great wave of affection for Dexter Mayhew. In eight years not a day has gone by when she… — David Nicholls Best friend Copy Share Image
“Emma's mid-twenties had brought a second adolescence even more self-absorbed and doom-laden than the first one. 'Why don't you just come home,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“They ended up in a amusement arcade on Old Compton Street, where Nora insisted Stephen join her on one of those dance-step… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Well I can tell you now that married life is not a plateau, not at all. There are ravines and great jagged… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
I tell you what it is. It's...when I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day in… — David Nicholls Baby Copy Share Image
“Simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex! — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama... — David Nicholls Appetite Copy Share Image
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
