382 Quotes by David Nicholls

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

You’ve got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it’s unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it’ll be a cyanide capsule.

Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy.

The idea that someone, man or woman, should receive any kind of extra attention or affection or popularity or respect or adulation, simply because of a quirk of genetics and some arbitrary male-media-defined subjective notion of ‘beauty’ seems to me inherently wrong and unacceptable.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don’t get carried away.

I think reality is over-rated.

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn’t it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn’t be Venice, said Connie’s voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

If there’s anything I’m keen to get better at in my writing, then it’s the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don’t like you anymore. I’m sorry.