David Nicholls Quotes - Page 5

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• 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?

  David Nicholls

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em.

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  Sorry, Tired, Bad Day

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• 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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  Thailand, Littles, Too Much

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• ...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

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  Mind, Easy, Conversation

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• Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?

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  Flower, Water, Why Not

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• So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

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  Happened

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

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  Missing, My Best Friend, Emma

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• The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

  David Nicholls

  Art, Life Changing, Hard Work

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• The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

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  Rose, Empty, Succession

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• These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

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  Grief, Rivers, Frozen

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• [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.

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  Thinking, Hands, Photograph

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.

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  Daughter, Pain, Eye

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• 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.

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  Party, Cities, Defeated

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• And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

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  Long, Moments, Been In Love

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• But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

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  Character, Independent, Sparks

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• I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

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  Thinking, Resorts, Consolation

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• I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.

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  I Love Him, Men, Building

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• But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

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  Sex

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

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  Long, Remember, Reader

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• When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

  David Nicholls

  Men, Actors, Done

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

  David Nicholls

  Book, Reading, Momentum

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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 hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

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  Hair, Laughing, Lovely

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.363, Villard

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• I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

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  Sweden, Streets

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• David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

  David Nicholls

  Mother, Eight, Years

  "Author Imagines 'One Day' For Connected People". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 19, 2010.

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• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Morning, Lying, Mean

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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