Quote

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

David Nicholls

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Still
Thin
Self
Devoted
Would
Attraction
Time
Plenty
Life
Wear
Probably
Pleasure
Sensation
Stills
Sensations

More quotes by David Nicholls

Image
…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
David Nicholls
Image
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?
David Nicholls
Image
Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
David Nicholls
Image
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
David Nicholls
Image
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .
David Nicholls
Image
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
David Nicholls
Image
Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
David Nicholls
Image
Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
David Nicholls
Image
She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
David Nicholls
Image
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
David Nicholls
Image
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
David Nicholls
Image
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?
David Nicholls
Image
you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.
David Nicholls
Image
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
David Nicholls
Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
David Nicholls
Image
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
David Nicholls
Image
Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
David Nicholls
Image
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
David Nicholls
Image
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
David Nicholls
Image
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
David Nicholls