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David Alan Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter.

✵ 30. November 1966  •  Other names ניקולס דייוויד
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David Nicholls Quotes

“As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

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

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

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

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us