Fuck yeah, Nick Hornby

[everlastingsunny]

David and I have explained, as best we can, why anyone who votes Conservative will never be entirely welcome in our house, although we have to make special arrangements for Granny and Grandpa.

Nick Hornby, “How To Be Good” (via sunshinethequeer)

[readfuriously]

Oh Nick Hornby, you just get me…

[die-nachbarin]

Dennis had been working on the assumption that it was best to suffer in silence. A declaration of love would almost certainly be met by embarrassment and, if he was lucky, a little speech about how lovely he was, how much she valued his friendship and professional support. … He was finding it increasingly hard to keep it bottled up however. That wasn’t the point of love, in his opinion. Love meant being brave, otherwise you had already lost your own argument: the man who couldn’t tell a woman he loved her was, by definition, not worthy of her.

Nick Hornby, Funny Girl (via strangeviolin)

[signalstonoise]

I can’t afford to be a pop snob anymore, and if there is a piece of music out there that has the ability to move me, then I want to hear it, no matter who’s made it… You’re either for music or you’re against it, and being for it means embracing anyone who’s any good.

Nick Hornby, making a strong argument against judging musicians on anything other than the actual music they make. (via signalstonoise)

[die-nachbarin]

‘It’s funny, sex,’ she said. 'It’s a little thing like a glass of water is a little thing. Or something that falls off a car and only costs a couple of bob to replace. It’s only a little thing, but nothing works without it.’

Nick Hornby, Funny Girl (via strangeviolin)

[lbe-softl]

[thesewindmills]

[T]o my way of thinking, poetry books work more like books of reference: They go up on the shelves straight away (as opposed to onto the bedside table), to be taken down and dipped into every now and again.

Nick Hornby, The Polysllabic Spree (San Francisco: Believer Books, 2004), 33. (via thesewindmills)

[jodwinleigh-deactivated20190207]

We’re like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby (via jodwinleigh)

[goodquoteco]

I used to think—and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do—that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you’ve got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via hqlines)

[tuimelgeest]

[dragonscanbekilled-deactivated2]

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.

Martin Sharp / Nick Hornby - A Long Way Down

(via dragonscanbekilled)

[itwasthebestoflines]

“Funny Girl" by Nick Hornby (2014).

[xcfds-deactivated20211201]

[freshlybrewedbookreviews]

When I want to kiss people in that way now, with mouths and tongues and all that, it’s because I want other things, too: sex, Friday nights at the cinema, company and conversation, fused networks of family and friends, Lemsips brought to me in bed when I am ill, a new pair of ears for my records and CDs, maybe a little boy called Jack and a little girl called Holly or Maisie, I haven’t decided yet.

Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

[chevitadastronze]

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it.

Funny girl by Nick Hornby (via chevitadastronze)

[nothingelseicansayyy]

Life was, after all, like air. Will could have no doubt about that anymore. There seemed to be no way of keeping it out, or at a distance, and all he could do for the moment was live it and breathe it. How people managed to draw it down into their lungs without choking was a mystery to him: it was full of bits. This was air you could almost chew.

Nick Hornby "About a Boy" (via nothingelseicansayyy)

[djcblog]

He was almost sure he understood what she was suggesting, but almost wasn’t good enough, not for him. He would always be someone who assumed the worst. He would always be the person who made the safest, dullest, and most literal interpretation of an ambiguous statement. He would very likely stay single for the rest of his life.

- Dennis, Funny Girl

(via djcblog)