Tagged: Nick Hornby.
May 11th, 2013
‘Because … most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don’t have any of that. There’s nothing between you and despair, and you don’t seem a very desperate person.’
‘Too stupid.’
‘You’re not stupid. So why don’t you ever put your head in the oven?’
‘I don’t know. There’s always a new Nirvana album to look forward to, or something happening in NYPD Blue to make you want to watch the next episode.’
‘Exactly.’
‘That’s the point? NYPD Blue? Jesus.’ It was worse than he thought.
‘No, no. The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point. I don’t know if you even realize it, but on the quiet you don’t think life’s too bad. You love things. Telly. Music. Food.’
About a Boy by Nick Hornby

∞04:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩29
[About a Boy] [Nick Hornby] [Quote] [Book Quote] [1998]
March 4th, 2013
Maybe the best thing to do with favourite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.
Nick Hornby

∞04:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩39
[Quote] [Nick Hornby]
February 23rd, 2013
I don’t know you. The only thing I know about you is, you’re reading this. I don’t know if you’re happy or not; I don’t know whether you’re young or not. I sort of hope you’re young and sad. If you’re old and happy, I can imagine that you’ll smile to yourself when you hear me going, he broke my heart. 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, you smug old git. Oh you’ll remember feeling sort of pleasantly sad. You might remember listening to music and eating chocolates in your room, or walking along the embankment on your own, wrapped up in a winter coat and feeling lonely and brave. But can you remember how with every mouthful of food it felt like you were biting into your own stomach? Can you remember the taste of red wine as it came back up and into the toilet bowl? Can you remember dreaming every night that you were still together, that he was talking to you gently and touching you, so that every morning when you woke up you had to go through it all over again?
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

∞07:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩60
[Quote] [Book Quote] [A Long Way Down] [2005] [Nick Hornby]
February 19th, 2013
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

∞01:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩25
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Juliet Naked] [Nick Hornby] [2009]
February 14th, 2013
Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can’t sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you’ve had? So they look like a play?
Well you should. It’s fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby

∞01:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩41
[Quote] [Book Quote] [How to Be Good] [Nick Hornby] [2001]
February 13th, 2013
I used to think - and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do - that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you’ve got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

∞03:00 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩30
[Quote] [Book Quote] [High Fidelity] [1995] [Nick Hornby]
January 16th, 2013
I don’t think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.
Nick Hornby

∞10:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩22
[Quote] [Nick Hornby]
January 6th, 2013
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

∞10:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩48
[Picture] [Picture Quote] [A Long Way Down] [Nick Hornby] [2005]
December 19th, 2012
I’m a good person. In most ways. But I’m beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn’t count for anything very much, if you’re a bad person in one way.
Nick Hornby

∞01:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩133
[Quote] [Nick Hornby]
December 9th, 2012
Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

∞03:00 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩119
[Quote] [Book Quote] [A Long Way Down] [Nick Hornby] [2005]
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