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“We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.”

Nick Hornby book Juliet, Naked

Source: Juliet, Naked

“There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: 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 Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

“It'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 a party.”

Nick Hornby

“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“I 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 spit it out…. It's the best part of us probably…”

Nick Hornby book Songbook

Source: Songbook

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“I've committed to nothing… and that's just suicide… by tiny, tiny increments.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“It seems to me now that the 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.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Variant: The 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.
Source: How to Be Good

“Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”

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