Nick Hornby

... 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 Hornby

#home

He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#love

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 Hornby

#dating

If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#relationships #relationship

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 Hornby

#courage

Defansçılar her zaman forvetçilerden daha iyi analizcilerdir. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#money

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? ↗

— Nick Hornby

#becomes #cope #good #how #our

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#disappointment #fan #football #matter #natural

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#book #case #changed #club #good

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#common denominator #denominator #football #lowest #radio