“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days… — 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… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The point is not that my life is one long golden summer which I am simply too self-absorbed to appreciate (although it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You’re my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you’re no option at all.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I loved them, and would always love them. But there was no place where they could fit anymore, so I had nowhere… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Ken didn't die for your benefit, you know. It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the flm of your life story." Of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Once you stop pretending that everything's shitty and you can't wait to get out of it...then it gets more painful, not less.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“And if I went back to sleep and slept for forty years and woke up without any teeth to the sound of… — 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
“And I don’t know what difference it made, this sudden flash. It wasn’t like I wanted to, you know, grab life in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an… — 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
