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Heart Quotes by Nick Hornby

13 Heart quotes by Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby’s musings on the heart land where humor meets tenderness, offering a compact glimpse into his take on affection and the ache of longing. Though brief, these thirteen lines capture his knack for turning everyday moments into resonant reflections.

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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get…

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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.

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“It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.”

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For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course,…

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I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives…

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“She’d always suspected that she was the sort of girl who wouldn’t go home to see a sick father if she had…

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We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we…

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“She was the spare room that never got tidied, the e-mail that never got answered, the loan that never got repaid, the…

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That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when…

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Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for…

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Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B…

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“She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything. And then, after the regret had flared and burned…

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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence…

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You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done…

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…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

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“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.”

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“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will…

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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…

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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

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I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which…

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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

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“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day…

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“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just…

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“I'm OK. Really. I can find people. I'll be all right.”

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“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…

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“Defansçılar her zaman forvetçilerden daha iyi analizcilerdir.”

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On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans…

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It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything…

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