He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent. Nick Hornby More Quotes by Nick Hornby More Quotes From Nick Hornby When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad. Nick Hornby really-sad want people I hate time. It never does what you want it to. Nick Hornby hate doe want Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. 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. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk? Nick Hornby smart odds people I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal. Nick Hornby suicidal far-away people When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother. Nick Hornby eye mother sides I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible. Nick Hornby sorry people thinking I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash. Nick Hornby girl mean book ...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium. Nick Hornby unexpected real imagination Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys. Nick Hornby reading journey book Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth. Nick Hornby momentum mouths book That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself. Nick Hornby cereal mother laughing I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together. Nick Hornby stories together happens You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad. Nick Hornby mad Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I'm not one of them. This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it. Nick Hornby stress nice night We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement. Nick Hornby punctuation-marks locks agreement What went wrong? Nothing and everything. Nick Hornby I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at. Nick Hornby should-have age forget I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. Nick Hornby maps empires reading Human beings are millions of things in one day. Nick Hornby millions one-day humans He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale. Nick Hornby scales chocolate ends
