“People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I can't help but love David at this moment. He's calm when he has every right to be angry with everything and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“A couple of months ago, I became depressed by the realization that I'd forgotten pretty much everything I've ever read. I have,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've… — 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
