Quote by David Nicholls (about Secrets)

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

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I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love "Tender is the Night," and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

David Nicholls

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

David Nicholls in Us

Happiness

Perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had, as sorrow for what we have lost.

David Nicholls in Us

Grief & Condolence

"I love you" is an interesting phrase, in that apparently small alterations–taking away the I, adding a word like lots or loads–render it meaningless.

David Nicholls in Us

Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!

David Nicholls in Us

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost.

David Nicholls in Us

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

David Nicholls in One Day

Photography Wise Sayings

"So - whatever happened to you?"
"Life. Life happened."

David Nicholls in One Day

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.

David Nicholls in One Day

Perfection

I think reality is overrated.

David Nicholls in One Day

Reality

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.

David Nicholls in One Day

Joy Positive Quotes

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

David Nicholls in One Day

Breakup

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

David Nicholls in One Day

Friendship

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls in One Day

Envy Success

She was reaching the limits of how much it's possible to change a man.

David Nicholls in One Day

"Live each day as if it's your last", that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at...something. Change lives through art maybe. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.

David Nicholls in One Day

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

David Nicholls in Us

What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us. Time and time over. They are to be happy in. Where can we live but days?

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Days

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

Emma in One Day

I love you Dex, I really do. I just don't like you anymore.

Emma in One Day

A tortilla is either corn or wheat. But a corn tortilla folded and filled is a taco, whereas a filled wheat tortilla is a burrito. Deep fry a burrito, it's a chimichanga. Toast a tortilla, it's a tostada. Roll it, it's an enchilada.

Emma in One Day

Mexico

Dexter: "What rhymes with Dexter?"
Emma: "Prick. It's a half-rhyme."

Emma in One Day

I think sometimes we aren't keeping secrets to hide from other people. I think sometimes we're keeping them to protect those people.

Tony Padilla in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

Secrets Protection

I guess we all have things we try to hide. But they can't stay hidden forever.

Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

Secrets

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

Love Valentine's Day

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey

Friendship

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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