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
“This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this… — 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 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
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he… — 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
Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which… — 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
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — 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
“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
I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit,… — 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
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
“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
“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 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