David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
party cities defeated
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.
falling-in-love romantic-love love-is
He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?
thinking years eight
In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
appreciation book thinking
Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?
ideas two people
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
facts yeats wilde
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.
sorry love-you one-day
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
differences important important-things
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference
laughter laughing feelings
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.
wells
Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.
life happy realizing
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
love hope today
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
new-years-resolution one-day principles
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
heartache today tomorrow
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it