David Nicholls Quotes

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

I hate being ignored.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

The WB never treated us well, so we didn't expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards.

I'm a normal person, but people see me as this person who's not really real, almost like I don't have feelings. They think they can treat me any way they want to.

If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.

We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

We leave people alone when they need us most.

You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.

My childhood was the worst thing on earth. I'm very lucky to have gotten out of that, but I spent 15 years of my life being so incredibly emotionally abused.

Inter did not treat me well. They did not recognise my value despite me winning the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup.