382 Quotes by David Nicholls

Maybe they're in love.""And is that what love looks like - all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?""Sometines it is.

The great virtue of defeat, once accepted, is that it at least allows one to rest.

And there it is again, the look. There's no doubt about it, if Sylvie had a receipt, she would have taken him back by now; this one's gone wrong. It's not what I wanted.

But perhaps it's a delusion for each generation to think that they know better than their parents. If this were true, than parental wisdom would increase with time like the processing power of computer chips, refining over generations, and we'd how be living in some utopia of openness and understanding. (pag.288)

You're not going to turn into a wanker, are you?" says Tone, opening a can of larger."What do you mean?""He means you're not going to get all studenty on us," says Spencer."Well, I am a student. I mean, I will be, so,...""No, but I mean you're not gong to get all twatty and up-your-own-arse and come home at Christmas in a gown, talking Latin and saying "one does" and "one thinks" and all that...""Yeah, Tone, that's EXACTLY what I'm going to do.

Here people cycled with a reckless swagger, talking on the phone and eating breakfast.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.

No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.