382 Quotes by David Nicholls

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

Like I said, I’m fine. I don’t ever think of her.’ And I didn’t ever think of her, except from time to time.

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

Apparently the nation’s future lay not in innovation and development but in global finance and telesales, in the entertainment industry and coffee shops.

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I’m not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Call me sentimental, but there’s no-one in the world that I’d like to see get dysentery more than you.

The truth is that my heart felt like a fist trying to punch its way though my rib-cage – not from the excitement of it all, though it was thrilling, but from a sense that finally, finally something good was about to happen to me. I felt the proximity of change, and I had wanted more than anything for something in my life to change. Is it still possible to feel like that, I wonder? Or does it only happen to us once?

When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment – and nor should they have done – about having a good time.

Light travels differently in a room that contains another person; it reflects and refracts so that even when she was silent or sleeping I knew that she was there.