Quote

…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

David Nicholls

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Portion
Portions
Small
Fall
Felt
Away
Another
Soul
Emma

More quotes by 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
We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
David Nicholls
Image
To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
David Nicholls
Image
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
David Nicholls
Image
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
David Nicholls
Image
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
David Nicholls
Image
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
David Nicholls
Image
Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
David Nicholls
Image
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.
David Nicholls
Image
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.
David Nicholls
Image
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
David Nicholls
Image
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
David Nicholls
Image
Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
David Nicholls
Image
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
David Nicholls
Image
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
David Nicholls
Image
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
David Nicholls
Image
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.
David Nicholls
Image
Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
David Nicholls
Image
When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
David Nicholls
Image
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
David Nicholls