“The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.” YearsFirstsTurnsLeftLaughingBecomingKissingSightPropertySeriesEtcBecoming MoreNudityFirst KissLandmarks Book:Us Source: Us
“I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.” YearsActorsTerribleTwentiesUniversity Author:David Nicholls
“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.” GivingFeelsYearsWellsLittlesDoeBookHardHappensUnjust Author:David Nicholls
“David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.” IfsYearsMotherActorsNamesStageChangedEightTouched Author:David Nicholls
“You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsBelieveMeanI CanStuffNiceSmartEmsConspiracyBeing NiceCheer UpSmart And FunnyGanging Up Author:David Nicholls
“For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.” PeopleYearsPersonsWholeWantedLastsNightNextRoomsNumbersStreetsMetsTenStandingFilledPhonesClubsCardsPocketsTelephonesMobilePavementMobile PhonesNight ClubSims Author:David Nicholls
“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.” PeopleIfsWritingYearsBookWholeWould BeWantedFilmSongFallCompanyStepsShareCryBedAskingBlameFalling In LoveAffairPopsRidiculousThese DaysIntensityBobTapeBackwardsChanging Your LifeDylanLove AffairWriting PoetryPop SongEliotBrechtCompilation Author:David Nicholls
“Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.” YearsUrgesSwimSalmon Author:David Nicholls
“He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?” YearsShowsFallLove IsLaughingTalentMaterialsPromiseBedFalling In LoveBreadMealsRomantic LoveI PromiseNotchesDinersTalent ShowTop Notch Author:David Nicholls
“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.” ThinkingWantYearsGoneMissingEightMy Best FriendWant Him Author:David Nicholls
“You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.” YearsAnecdotes Author:David Nicholls
