David Nicholls Quotes

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself.

I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.

I need you to breathe for me.

He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.

I know he would die if you died, Luce

I’d like to take care of someone but at the same time I like girls who are independent.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

“I'm not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? “I've been right here all along. I love you, Eve, almost more than I can stand.” “I need you. I can't help it. I don't want to.” “I know. He eased back, tucking a hand under her chin to lift her face to his. “We’re going to have to deal with it.” He kissed one wet cheek, then the other. “I really can’t do without you.“

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.

Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.