Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
David NichollsI'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
David NichollsOnce you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
David NichollsI suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,โ she siad. โYou know, actually change something.โ โWhat, like โchange the worldโ, you mean?โ โNot the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
David NichollsShe glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
David NichollsI contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.
David Nicholls