What must that be like? To be admired before youโve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what youโre like?
David NichollsI identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
David NichollsTo have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
David NichollsI want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
David NichollsHe'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