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Quotes About Love

Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell .Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.
~ David Nicholls
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?
~ David Nicholls
And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.
~ David Nicholls
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.
~ David Nicholls
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
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
~ David Nicholls
Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? You were once, weren't you? In the beginning?
~ David Nicholls
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately ,experience new things, love and be loved.
~ David Nicholls
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.
~ David Nicholls
The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
~ David Nicholls
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
~ David Nicholls
All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter's ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.
~ David Nicholls
Simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at...something. Change lives through art maybe. 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.
~ David Nicholls
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible
~ David Nicholls
There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.
~ David Nicholls
Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.
~ David Nicholls
He wonders if he still might tell her that he loves her or, more tentatively, that he 'thinks he might be in love with her', which is both more touching and easier to back out of.
~ David Nicholls
She made you decent, and in return, you made her so happy.
~ David Nicholls
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.
~ David Nicholls
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.
~ David Nicholls
Well, in the first flush of love, if someone tells you to read something then you damn well read it [...]
~ David Nicholls
Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.
~ 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?
~ David Nicholls
I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together. Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?
~ David Nicholls