David Nicholls citations

“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?”

“She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy”

“I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.”

“Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.”

“People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.”

“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.”

“He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?”

“Dont run before you can walk”

“Envy was just the tax you paid on success.”

“… Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.”

“She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man”