382 Quotes by David Nicholls

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

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.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

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

Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.