382 Quotes by David Nicholls

Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.

Who's he seeing now then?""No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.