David Nicholls: Trending quotes

“So - whatever happened to you?'
'Life. Life happened.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

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

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”

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

“If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”

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

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

“I think reality is overrated.”

“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.”

“This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first.”

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

“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

“And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.”

“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?”

“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”

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

“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.”

“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?”