Quote

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

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
Impossible
Fact
Facts
Rarely
Found
Degree
Express
Degrees
Loved
Wife

More quotes by David Nicholls

Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
David Nicholls
Image
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
David Nicholls
Image
She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
David Nicholls
Image
Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
David Nicholls
Image
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
David Nicholls
Image
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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
She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
David Nicholls
Image
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
David Nicholls
Image
Maybe we've grown out of each other.
David Nicholls
Image
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
David Nicholls
Image
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
David Nicholls
Image
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
David Nicholls
Image
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
David Nicholls
Image
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
David Nicholls
Image
I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
David Nicholls
Image
You must do what you enjoy.
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
Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
David Nicholls
Image
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
David Nicholls