David Nicholls Quotes - Page 7

...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

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

And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

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?

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

Be good. Do something good.

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

Work hard at . . . something.

It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

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

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.