Tagged: Nick Hornby.
December 3rd, 2012
He had never once felt itchy, in the way that two connecting pieces of a jigsaw never felt itchy, as far as one could tell. If one were to imagine, for the sake of argument, that jigsaw pieces had thoughts and feelings, then it was possible to imagine them saying to themselves, ‘I’m going to stay here. Where else would I go?’ And if another jigsaw piece came along, offering its tabs and blanks enticingly in an attempt to lure one of the pieces away, it would be easy to resist temptation. ‘Look,’ the object of the seducer’s admiration would say. ‘You’re a bit of telephone box, and I’m the face of Mary, Queen of Scots. We just wouldn’t look right together.’ And that would be that.
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

∞03:00 am, by lostinthesounds ∩9
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Juliet Naked] [2009] [Nick Hornby]
November 25th, 2012
I’ve been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

∞01:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩56
[Quote] [Book Quote] [1995] [High Fidelity] [Nick Hornby]
October 23rd, 2012
Falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby

∞02:17 am, by lostinthesounds ∩10
[Quote] [Book Quote] [About a Boy] [1998] [Nick Hornby]
September 5th, 2012
We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

∞03:19 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩77
[Quote] [Nick Hornby] [Book Quote] [A Long Way Down] [2005]
August 30th, 2012
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we’re so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they’re not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. … Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it’ll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you’re living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

∞09:04 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩52
[Quote] [Book Quote] [A Long Way Down] [Nick Hornby] [2005]
August 26th, 2012
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.
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

∞07:36 am, by lostinthesounds ∩26
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Juliet Naked] [Nick Hornby] [2009]
August 21st, 2012
Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby

∞02:11 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩19
[Quote] [Book Quote] [2001] [How to Be Good] [Nick Hornby]
August 20th, 2012
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

∞02:50 am, by lostinthesounds ∩46
[Quote] [Book Quote] [1995] [Nick Hornby] [High Fidelity]
July 29th, 2012
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favour, but they quite clearly weren’t. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn’t worth the risk?
About a Boy by Nick Hornby

∞12:48 am, by lostinthesounds ∩29
[Quote] [Book Quote] [About a Boy] [1998] [Nick Hornby]
June 28th, 2012
Sometimes you know you’ve got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn’t so messed up, it wouldn’t be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn’t.
Nick Hornby

∞09:54 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩22
[Quote] [Nick Hornby]
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