David Nicholls may refer to:
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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.
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
. . . and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost. . . .
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
Dont run before you can walk
…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.
Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice. " "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something. ’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme. ' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.