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From Quotes by Nick Hornby
- Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
- I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games…
- It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship…
- We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,…
- Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want…
- It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some…
- I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted to send them…
- All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You…
- Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,…
- I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush…
- Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage…
- But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and…
- You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like…
- I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes,…
- I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You…
- I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get…
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