382 Quotes by David Nicholls

I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there’s always a little cynical undertone, there’s always something that undercuts things.

No.’ She took my hand. ‘Let’s make a French exit.’ ‘What’s a French exit?’ ‘It’s when you leave without saying goodbye.’ ‘I’ve never heard that before.’ A French exit; no thank you for having me, no I’ve had a lovely time. To just walk away, cool and aloof. I wondered if I could.

If she does have a failing, and it’s obviously only a tiny one, it’s that she doesn’t seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

I considered the concept of “oversharing”, and what undersharing might be, and whether it was ever possible to settle on something in between.

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than “relationships.

Well, I don’t think Hollywood’s a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I’m a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

He hadn’t been this nervous since the last disastrous night at the improv, and he firmly told himself to calm down as he blotted at the tablecloth, glancing upwards to see Emma wriggling out of her summer jacket, pushing her shoulders back and her chest forward in that way that women do without realising the ache they cause.

I’ve been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.