Nick HornbyI suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ✨ Nick Hornby (2004). The Polysylla… ▶372Reading
Nick HornbySometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl… ▶372Time
Nick HornbyIt's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at… ▶372HopeTime
Nick HornbyI see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous crim… ▶372Reading
Nick HornbyAnd what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who… ▶361LifeLoveReading
Nick HornbyI love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spi… ▶362LoveReading
Nick HornbyAll the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libra… ▶362Reading
Nick HornbyRecord stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.374Life
Nick HornbyWe were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's… ▶341Reflection
Nick HornbyDo you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?' Well you should. It's fun. … ▶364Time
Nick HornbyWhat went wrong? Nothing and everything. ✨ Nick Hornby (1996). High Fidelity, p.144, Penguin364Philosophy
Nick HornbyI had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander… ▶353Thought
Nick HornbyThe truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.331Truth
Nick HornbyThe plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. 364HumanityLifeLove
Nick HornbyI've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start t… ▶354LifeLoveThought
Nick Hornby[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get… ▶343HumanityLifeTime
Nick HornbyIt's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whi… ▶376LifeTime
Nick HornbyIt's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared… ▶311Love
Nick HornbyThat was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself. ✨ Nick Hornby (1999). About a Boy, p.66, Penguin355HumorSadness
Nick HornbyI don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!344HumanityReading
Nick HornbyI've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.322Death
Nick HornbyRadio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sens… ▶377Sadness
Nick HornbyHe loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was any… ▶333LoveSadnessThought
Nick HornbyNot for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.334LifeTime
Nick HornbyI had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from. ✨ A Lon… ▶356HumanityReading
Nick HornbyThe artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.334Death
Nick HornbyI don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.345Humor
Nick HornbyEveryone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so… ▶356Time
Nick HornbyBooks are, let's face it, better than everything else. ✨ Nick Hornby (2004). The Polysyllabic Spree, McSweeneys Books334Reading
Nick HornbyAnd it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to… ▶367Sadness
