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About a Boy

About a Boy is a 1998 coming of age novel written by British writer Nick Hornby which has sold over a million copies. The novel was later adapted into a feature film in 2002 and a television series in 2014.

“No man is an island…”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“[…] 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 About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy (1998), Ch. 3

“The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“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 Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“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 About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“Each day was a bad day, but he survived by kidding himself that each day was somehow unconnected to the day before.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy (1998), Ch. 17

“Single mothers — bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them all over London — they were the best invention Will had ever heard of.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy (1998), Ch. 4

“These feelings were exactly what he had been so afraid of, and this was why he had been so sure that falling in love was rubbish, and, surprise surprise, it was rubbish, and … and it was too late.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

About a Boy (1998)

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