David Nicholls Quotes - Page 3

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• Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

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  Fighting, Battle, Fighting Battles

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

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  Thinking, Trying, Facts

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• Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

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  Book, Years, Giving

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

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  Mind, Speak

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• Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

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  Energy, Tape, Letters

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• I tell you what it is. It's...when I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day in some way or another -" "Same here -" "- even if it was just 'I wish Dexter could see this' or 'where's Dexter now?' or 'Christ, that Dexter, what an idiot', you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my best friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby - I'm so happy for you, Dex. But it feels like I've lost you again.

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  Baby, Mean, Wish

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• You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

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  Years, Anecdotes

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• As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

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  Morning, Lying, Mean

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Summer, Home, Kissing

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• I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

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  Expectations, Great Expectations, Kind

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

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  Differences, Important, Important Things

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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• I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

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  Missing, Would Be, Capable

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• I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

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  Children, Home, Two

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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.

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  Sorry, Love You, One Day

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• I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

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  Long, Remember, Reader

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• …surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

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  Comforting, Bad Food

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• He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

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  Found, Available

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• You must do what you enjoy.

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  Enjoy

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• Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?

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  Just Love Me

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN

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  Fun, Night, Imagine

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

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  Mean, Differences, Important

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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

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  Moving, People, Use

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

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  Ambition, Welcome, Graveyard

  "Fictional character: Emma". One Day, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

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  Book, Reading, Momentum

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• Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

  David Nicholls

  Nice, Mean, Being Nice

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