I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
