“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
“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
“Kids must spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed to pick a duck… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of… — 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
“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
“Is there anything more adult than sticking with a relationship that’s falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All the Oscars stuff for 'An Education' was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project - no one would… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I had wanted to kill myself, not because I hated living, but because I loved it. And the truth of the matter… — 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
“They're not me, but I wish I was them. Maybe not them, exactly, because they're not so happy either. But I wish… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life… — 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
“I can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when… — 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
“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them… — 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
“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
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they… — 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 what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“He wanted Rachel to be his wife, his lover, the centre of his whole world; a girlfriend implied that he would see… — 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
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
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
