You run the risk of losing anyone who is worth spending time
with, unless you are so paranoid about loss that you choose someone unlosable, somebody who could
not possibly appeal to anybody else at all.
What was happening here? He decided that children were what was happening here; that children served as a symbolic blemish, like a birthmark or obesity, which gave him a chance where previously there would have been none. Maybe children democratized beautiful single women.
Nick HornbyTags: humor-dating
He had to say that the thing he found most attractive about her was that she had tried to kill herself. Now that was interesting-- sexy, almost, in a morbid kind of way.
Nick HornbyTags: dark-humor-dating
Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was reciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out.
Nick HornbyTags: love
Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
Nick HornbyTags: imagination lovers
he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it...
Nick HornbyTags: music
Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was indicative of an undervalued kind of moral courage, that only cool people screwed up.
Nick HornbyTags: relationships
...he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.
Nick HornbyMusicians had been assholes since the day the lute was invented.
Nick HornbyAnd if I went
back to sleep and slept for forty years and woke up without any teeth to the sound of Melody Radio in
an old people’s home, I wouldn’t worry that much, because the worst of life, i.e., the rest of it, would
be over. And I wouldn’t even have had to kill myself.
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