Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether… — 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
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in… — 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
