382 Quotes by David Nicholls

Today. This bright new day that awaits us.

They say the personal is political and it’s certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein’s kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.

You can’t throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

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.

In the future, I’ll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

There’s a particular grubbiness that comes with travel. You start showered and fresh in clean and comfortable clothes, upbeat and hopeful that this will be like travel in the movies; sunlight flaring on the windows, heads resting on shoulders, laughter and smiles with a lightly jazzy soundtrack. But in reality the grubbiness has set in.

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.’ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

If you have to keep a secret it’s because you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

She shouldn’t speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.