David Nicholls Quotes
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This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them?
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 like idiots then?
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then?
He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious.
The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.
... and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.
Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose I you phone first.
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
And I have a tiny little moment of anxiety, because I can't remember whether or not we're meant to be boycotting mars bars.
But I've been here in Wolverhampton for two days now and that's felt pretty eternal (though I can reveal that the Pizza Hut
Clearly the key to having a long and successful marriage would be to have a non-lethal heart attack every three months or so
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.
I considered the concept of "oversharing", and what undersharing might be, and whether it was ever possible to settle on something in between.
He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull would be attractive.
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.
Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.
Well, in the first flush of love, if someone tells you to read something then you damn well read it [ ... ]
Conversation, the gradual unveiling of oneself, one's quirks and characteristics, opinions and beliefs; what a fraught and awkward business that is.
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.
Things should look right, Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
[He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
You know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do ...
I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete.
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?