It’s love this and love that, but of course 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 Christmas turkey — now there’s a miracle.
Nick HornbyWhat I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and mope; I had the blues, and when I watched my team I could unwrap them and let them breathe a little.
Nick HornbyStichwörter: football fever-pitch
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?
Nick HornbyWhen your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
Nick HornbyStichwörter: life sadness sad a-long-way-down
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
Nick HornbyAnd now here Annie was, allowing her day to become gloriously colored by a communication from a man she'd never even met.
Nick HornbyBooks are, let's face it, better than everything else.
Nick HornbyShe was the spare room that never got tidied, the e-mail that never got answered, the loan that never got repaid, the symptom that never got described to a doctor.
Nick HornbyThe cliche had it that kids were the future, but that wasn't it: they were the unreflective, active present. They were not themselves nostalgic, because they couldn't be, and they retarded nostalgia in their parents. Even as they were getting sick and being bullied and becoming addicted to heroin and getting pregnant, they were in the moment, and she wanted to be in it with them. She wanted to worry herself sick about schools and bullying and drugs.
Nick Hornby(Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.)
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