382 Quotes by David Nicholls

I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies’ toilets.

You’re gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

He’s a better person when she’s around, and isn’t that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Well, it’s so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won’t happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

If you’re my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can’t, and if I can’t talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Conversation, the gradual unveiling of oneself, one’s quirks and characteristics, opinions and beliefs; what a fraught and awkward business that is.

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy.

The tourist’s paradox: how to find somewhere that’s free of people exactly like us.

There’s a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that’s just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.