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Relationships Quotes by Nick Hornby

13 Relationships quotes by Nick Hornby

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If you’ve ever felt the awkward humor of modern love, Hornby’s short handful of lines will hit close to home. These thirteen snippets capture his trademark blend of sarcasm and tenderness, offering a quick, relatable glimpse into the messier side of human connections.

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“He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.”

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“How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?”

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My relationships are fairly stable.

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You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

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“If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.”

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But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.

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“But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know…

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We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more…

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“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't…

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“A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are…

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“Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was…

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“And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries…

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“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)…

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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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