David Nicholls Short Quotes

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And Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

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

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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference

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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

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Surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

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

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

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Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

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Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

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But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

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These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

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People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

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

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She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

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

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She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

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Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN

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

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

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

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

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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

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Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

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It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

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I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

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

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