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
Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately ,experience new things, love and be loved.” — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“You're gorgeous, you old hag. If I would give you anything in this world it would be this. Confidence. Either that or… — David Nicholls Candle 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 Heart Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always… — David Nicholls Danger Copy Share Image
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“But you're happy?' 'Yeah? I think I am. Are you?' 'Happier. Happyish.' 'Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we… — 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
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign… — David Nicholls Exhibitions 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 Comedy 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
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she… — David Nicholls 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 Copy Share Image
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and… — David Nicholls 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 Mothers Copy Share Image
“Independence is the luxury of all those people who are too confident, and busy, and popular, and attractive to be just plain… — David Nicholls Dad died Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“And sometimes I get carried away, that's all. If you weren't so...judgemental all the time-" "Am I? I don't think I am… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“The last year had been a series of wrong turns, bad choices, abandoned projects. There was the all-girl band in which she… — David Nicholls Bad choices Copy Share Image
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year… — David Nicholls Affair 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
“But Dexter blinked hard, shook his head then nudged her hand with his. ‘So what I thought we’d do for the next… — David Nicholls 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 Copy Share Image
“And by the time the train pulls into the station, I find myself actually relieved that Emily's only a figment of my… — David Nicholls Fitness 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
“I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.” — David Nicholls Charismatic Copy Share Image
Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each… — David Nicholls Facts Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is… — David Nicholls Comedy Copy Share Image
“Suki is the nation’s ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.” — David Nicholls Girlfriend Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, I think there are more important things in life than "relationships".” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind — David Nicholls Communication Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“May cause drowsiness.' - the most beautiful words in the English language. Once it was 'do you have a t-shirt I can… — David Nicholls Beautiful words 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 Amazing Copy Share Image
“Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
