Nick Hornby

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #life

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life

You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! ↗

— Nick Hornby

#marriage #reading #marriage

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#love #nick-hornby #self-hate #love

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #sad #sadness #life

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#fooball #humour #life #life

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#nature

To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#music

[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#love #nick-hornby #self-hate #beauty