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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7624cad | Jen leggeva. Amava i libri... io, no: a me facevano paura. Mi facevan paura quando c'era lei, e me ne fanno di piu adesso. Che cosa avevano dentro? Che cosa le hanno detto quando era infelice e ascoltava solo loro, e nessun altro - ne le sue amiche ne sua sorella, nessuno? | Nick Hornby | ||
| cd0f42c | Capisci che non stai andando bene quando non puoi raccontare agli altri i fatti piu semplici della tua vita, solo perche immaginerebbero che gli stai chiedendo pieta. Secondo me e per questo che una si sente cosi lontana da tutti, alla fine: qualunque cosa pensi di dirgli, finisce sempre che li fai star male. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c42ce60 | What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids. And nor do you think about your husband waking up in the morning being someone you don't recognize. If anyone thought about any of these things, then no one would ever get married. In fact, the impulse to ma.. | marriage | Nick Hornby | |
| ed9fb57 | There aren't any buts," said Bill. "That's the whole point of being a writer, isn't it? If I wanted buts, I'd go and work in a fucking but factory." | Nick Hornby | ||
| d93eae5 | That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all. | depression loneliness | Nick Hornby | |
| ea008aa | What came first--the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? | Nick Hornby | ||
| a23b635 | You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choi.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| d429e03 | for a while, I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody else as spookily relevant, which, as that covers the whole of pop music, and as I worked in a record shop, meant I felt pretty spooked more or less the whole time), | Nick Hornby | ||
| b6d90ba | A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners, a two-or three-page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/book bases. It was intended a) to dispense with awkward conversation, and b) to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might, at a later date, turn out to have every J.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 997aa82 | Some of my favorite songs: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Neil Young; 'Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me' by the Smiths; 'Call Me' by Aretha Franklin; 'I Don't Want to Talk About It' by anybody. And then there's 'Love Hurts' and 'When Love Breaks Down' and 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart' and 'The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness' and 'She's Gone' and 'I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself 'and . . . some of these songs I.. | misery music | Nick Hornby | |
| 6cecf43 | Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before. | Nick Hornby | ||
| b68a829 | The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 3adb3ba | Jackie and Phil are the most boring people in the southeast of England, possibly because they've been married too long, and therefore have nothing to talk about, apart from how long they've been married. In the end, I am reduced to asking them, in a joking sort of way, for the secret of their success; I was only saving time, because I think they would have told me anyway. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e531492 | It's not like anyone said anything that's memorable, or wise, or acute; it's more a mood thing. For the first time in my life I felt as though I'm in an episode of thirtysomethibng rather than an episode of... of... of some sitcom that hasn't been made yet about three guys who work in a record shop and talk about sandwich fillings an sax solos all day, and I love it. And I know thirtysomethibng is soppy and cliche'd and American and naff, I.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e53cee9 | Forse noi viviamo troppo protesi verso un apice, dico noi che assorbiamo emozioni da mattina a sera, e di conseguenza non riusciamo a sentirci semplicemente contenti: noi dobbiamo essere o disperati o al settimo cielo e questi stati d'animo sono difficili da raggiungere in una relazione stabile e solida. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5d06a40 | And now here Annie was, allowing her day to become gloriously colored by a communication from a man she'd never even met. | Nick Hornby | ||
| bf38641 | There have been times recently, since the begining of our troubles, when the site of David awake active, conscious, walking and talking has made me want to retch, so acute is my loathing of him. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 82567e1 | I can't help but love David at this moment. He's calm when he has every right to be angry with everything and everyone, and as a result I feel, for the first time in a long time, that we are a unit, | Nick Hornby | ||
| c60fcbd | But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, which country, so maybe she'll enable me to get my bearings. | relationships | Nick Hornby | |
| 3a1085d | Mis'lta, che mozhe da se nalozhi da prepodava vechno, beshe striaskala Ani nevedn'zh i tia dotolkova nenavizhdashe predishnata si rabota, che dori i sega zak'snenieto ot deset-petnaiset minuti, s koeto si pozvoliavashe da pristiga v muzeia, ia karashe da se chuvstva shchastliva. Za edin prepodavatel tezi petnaiset minuti shchiakha da sa unizitelna izd'nka, predizvikvashcha naprezhenie, zabelezhki i nedovolni kolegi, no na nikogo ne mu pukas.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fae3b21 | Ne be problem, misleshe si D'nkan, che dvamata s Ani nikoga ne se biakha obichali. Tiakhnoto beshe brak po smetka i do tozi moment funktsionirashe prekrasno - priiatelite im biakha s'postavili staratelno interesite i kharakterite im i pretsenkata im se be okazala tochna. Toi nikoga ne be izpitval zhelanie da si tr'gne, kakto dve sv'rzani parcheta ot p'zela ne se d'rpat edno ot drugo. Ako chovek si predstavi parcheta ot p'zel s chuvstva, to .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c4d0f59 | Po-k'sno u doma, piiana, tia se poddade na niakakva predkoitalna t'ga. Khrumna i, che povecheto ot t'gite i biakha predkoitalni. I kak da b'de inache, sled kato po-goliamata chast ot zhivota beshe predkoitalna? No sega chuvstvashe t'gata po-ostro ot drug p't, mozhe bi poradi tova, che i perspektivata za koitus beshe po-neposredstvena. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2f83cbb | Chetiriiset i edna minuti po-k'sno, dokato roveshe iz dzhobovete si za neshcho, koeto mozheshe da izpolzva vmesto k'rpichka, k'm nego se priblizhi v'zrastna zhena i go dokosna po ramoto. - Iskate li da si pogovorite s niakogo? - kaza tia vnimatelno. - O! Blagodaria. Ne, ne, dobre s'm. Toi dokosna litseto si - beshe plakal. - Siguren li ste? Ne izglezhdate dobre. - Naistina. Prosto... Prosto toku-shcho izzhiviakh neshcho mnogo silno. - Toi i.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 29240e2 | Kurkov loves his weltschmerz as much as the next guy--but he doesn't see why weltschmerz shouldn't come bundled up with a narrative that kicks a little bit of ass--the edge of the left cheek, say. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 6bf0ef0 | La musica sentimental tiene la especial cualidad de llevarte hacia atras en el tiempo a la vez que te lleva hacia delante, y por eso te sientes nostalgico y esperanzado a la vez. | fidelity gordon hornby pop | Nick Hornby | |
| 4762bf1 | The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says. | Elizabeth McKraken | ||
| 53f1934 | A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes about some novel they don't understand and then spend the rest of the evening moaning about how dreadful men are. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 8fddc08 | Keeping in touch with the things that help us feel alive - music, books, movies, even the theatre if, mysteriously, you are that way inclined - becomes a battle, and one that many of us lose, as we get older; | Nick Hornby | ||
| 4191b96 | This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it. | Nick Hornby | ||
| a07e3f0 | I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c1f406a | When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 16f76fe | I watched a lot of drunk players, too, I learned from the autobiographies published after they had retired. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 8b21907 | In retrospect, their best chance of doing it this way was against Arsenal, in the game they won 8-2. They only needed another nine that afternoon - and they missed at least fifteen good chances. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c6fdd3b | But enough already of what grammarians will recognize as the third conditional: if + pluperfect + would. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 45283aa | Sembra quasi che se metti la musica (e i libri, probabilmente, e i film, e il teatro, e qualsiasi cosa che procuri emozioni) al primo posto, non riuscirai mai a chiarire la tua vita amorosa, e non arriverai mai a considerarla come un prodotto finito. Ci troverai sempre qualcosa da ridire, starai sempre in subbuglio, e continuerai a criticare e a cercare di dipanare la matassa finche non va tutto a rotoli e devi ricominciare daccapo. Forse n.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 33463e1 | When they - I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2921fe7 | Is there a reason for the sudden fashion for the eight-goal tie? Maybe it's because defending is hard, and boring, and thankless, and most people who are paid a six-figure sum weekly do very little that is hard or boring or thankless. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fed1074 | A la mayoria de la gente le cabe en la cabeza el suicidio, supongo; la mayoria de la gente, aunque lo tenga muy oculto en lo mas profundo de si misma, puede recordar alguna vez en la vida en la que penso si realmente queria despertar a la manana siguiente. Querer morir parece una parte de estar vivo. | en-picado nick-hornby | Nick Hornby | |
| d3a290c | I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom. | Nick Hornby | ||
| cb877ab | All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the return journey, thump him on the head, and leave him in exactly the place he had started from. And all the time it got nearer and nearer to the morning. | dreams imagination thoughts visions | Nick Hornby | |
| 54aa4c7 | My friend Simon managed only sixteen of the seventeen League games - he smashed his head on a bookshelf in London a few hours before the Grimsby game on the 28th of Decemebr; his girlfriend had to take his car keys away from him because he kept making dazed attempts to drive from Fulham up to the Abbey. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2495963 | There aren't too many candlelit dinners and second honeymoons, I can tell you. We're beyond all that. We're good friends more than anything. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e989de9 | Talan mi tul magas langon eljuk az eletunket, mi, akik egesz nap erzelmes dolgokat szivunk magunkba, es emiatt aztan soha nem tudjuk egyszeruen csak elegedettnek erezni magunkat: az kell, hogy vagy boldogtalanok legyunk, vagy eksztatikusan, eszveszejtoen boldogok, marpedig ezeket az erzelmi allapotokat nehez elerni egy stabil, nyugodt kapcsolaton belul. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 778c3f9 | Annyira szeretnek bocsanatot kerni attol a kiskolyoktol: ,,Sajnalom, cserbenhagytalak. En vagyok az az ember, akinek igazabol gondoskodnia kellett volna rolad, de en elrontottam: rossz donteseket hoztam a legrosszabb pillanatokban, es elinteztem, hogy az legyen beloled, aki vagyok. | Nick Hornby |