David Nicholls: Likeness

David Nicholls is British writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“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 book One Day

Source: One Day

“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 book One Day

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

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

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

David Nicholls book One Day

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“And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?'
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“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 book One Day

Source: One Day

“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?”

David Nicholls book Starter for Ten

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“But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”

David Nicholls book One Day

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“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

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“I love you is an interesting phrase, in that apparently small alterations–taking away the I, adding a word like lots or loads–render it meaningless.”

David Nicholls book Us

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