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 HornbyTag: love about-a-boy nick-hornby self-hate
[...] 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 HornbyTag: love about-a-boy nick-hornby self-hate
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.
Nick HornbyTag: humor man men sex humour high-fidelity nick-hornby nick hornby manliness manly
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
Nick HornbyTag: relationships about-a-boy nick-hornby
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.
Nick HornbyTag: love people lucky about-a-boy nick-hornby
You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
Nick HornbyTag: change relationships about-a-boy nick-hornby
What good were real feelings anyway?
Nick HornbyTag: feelings about-a-boy nick-hornby
Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
Nick HornbyTag: literature novel juliet nick-hornby literature-quotes
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 with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.
Nick HornbyTag: football nick-hornby fever-pitch arsenal football-fan
A la mayoría de la gente le cabe en la cabeza el suicidio, supongo; la mayoría de la gente, aunque lo tenga muy oculto en lo más profundo de sí misma, puede recordar alguna vez en la vida en la que pensó si realmente quería despertar a la mañana siguiente. Querer morir parece una parte de estar vivo.
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