Author: David Nicholls

Cites

• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
  • IN: Us (2014) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Thou only hast taught me that I have a heart -- thou only hast thrown a light deep downward and upward into my soul. Thou only hast revealed me to myself; for whom thy aid my best knowledge of myself would have been merely to know my own shadow -- to watch it flickering on the wall, and mistake its fantasies for my own real actions... Now, dearest, dost thou understand what thou hast done for me? And is it not a somewhat fearful thought, that a few slight circumstances might have prevented us from meeting?
    FROM: letter to Sophia Peabody, (1840), NULL, US
• Philip Larkin (1)
  • IN: One Day (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields'
    FROM: Days, (1964), NULL, UK
• E. M. Forster (1)
  • IN: Starter for Ten (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She knew this type very well -- the vague aspirations, the mental disorder, the familiarity with the outside of books...
    FROM: Howards End, (1910), Novel, UK