Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me? David Nicholls More Quotes by David Nicholls More Quotes From David Nicholls These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. David Nicholls these-days morning night Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn? David Nicholls appreciation book thinking The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back. David Nicholls wilde yeats facts I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything David Nicholls nice stupid running ...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind David Nicholls easy mind conversation 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 thailand too-much littles This isn't a letter, it's a gift. David Nicholls letters Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em. David Nicholls bad-day tired sorry 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 been-in-love moments long You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. David Nicholls language world thinking 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. David Nicholls i-love-him building men Maybe we've grown out of each other. David Nicholls 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 moments somewhere-else want Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for. David Nicholls wells And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared. David Nicholls caring stupid thinking I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing. David Nicholls matter people thinking You must do what you enjoy. David Nicholls enjoy He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him. David Nicholls available found Be good. Do something good. David Nicholls be-good Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost. David Nicholls fighting-battles battle fighting
