“And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I will ever say to somebody I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them… — 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 can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The Marie bit is easy enough to understand, then. The Laura thing takes a bit more explaining, but what it is, I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The cliche had it that kids were the future, but that wasn't it: they were the unreflective, active present. They were not… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Why it didn't occur to any of us that a well-known suicide spot would be like Piccadilly Circus on New Year's Eve.… — 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
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I remembered what it is I like about sex: what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We all spend so much time, not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“There have been times recently, since the begining of our troubles, when the site of David awake active, conscious, walking and talking… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“But something was going to give. He was having a shit time at school and a shit time at home, and as… — 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
