Nick Hornby Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.
Can I be a good person and spend that much money on overpriced consumer goods? I don't know. But I do know this: I'd be no good without them.
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.
I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?
There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.
The anger was clearly real, though. It was in there, sloshing around, looking for the nearest hole to escape through.
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
How do people cope? Do you have to go? What happens if you refuse on the grounds of it being just too fucking grim?
What harm has he ever done to you?'
'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of This is me!
I am cowed - by her intelligence, and her ferocity, and the way she's always right. Or at least, she's always right enough to shut me up. 5.
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.
For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own
There aren't too many candlelit dinners and second honeymoons, I can tell you. We're beyond all that. We're good friends more than anything.
You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.
These things are going to eat away at me ... I rewrite the script in my head until it's 100-proof poison, and none of it helps at all.
Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.
I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
She began to fear that she would always be greedy, all the time. Nothing ever seemed to fill her up. Nothing ever seemed to touch the sides.
... it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
There aren't any buts," said Bill. "That's the whole point of being a writer, isn't it? If I wanted buts, I'd go and work in a fucking but factory.
I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.
I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.
No one's stopping you," said Jess. "But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits.
We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.
I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!
Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.
If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn't have believed it.
It's not reading and whatever that makes you good or bad. It's whether you rape people, or get addicted to crack and go out mugging.
Is it possible to want to divorce a man simply because he doesn't want to be rude about Ginger Spice? I rather fear it might be.
I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've got literature?
Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.
Anyone who thinks text messages are funny isn't going to kill himself. There isn't enough going on internally.
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.
Clive was rapidly coming to the conclusion that being engaged to somebody meant that he spent an awful lot of time not doing things he wanted to do.
I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
He was hoping that when this was all over, his spiritual overdraft would have been paid off, and he'd be allowed to use the cash machine again.
When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.