"As soon as she'd met him at the……" — David Nicholls
"As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her."
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151 Quotes by David Nicholls
David Nicholls has 151 quotes on this site.
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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and…
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Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the…
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be…
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed…
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious…
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more…
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Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed…
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And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into…
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
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I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival…
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger…
— Nancy Mairs
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A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were…
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Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare;…
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From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it…
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it…
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering…
— James A. Owen
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Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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