David Nicholls Quotes

If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn't follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he's okay with disappointing you.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow, because they have to meet the challenge every moment - and with no security. They have to create an inner phenomenon. With security you need not bother to create anything; the society helps.

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel. When people first fall in love they're more willing to do this because they're still getting to know each other and dependency has not yet set in. As soon as it does, though, people often stop sharing their true feelings out of fear of loss.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody’s there.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.

It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

"You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret."

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.