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“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.” (About a Boy Quotes)
Nick Hornby
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
“Marcus was difficult simply because he frequently gave the impression that he was merely stopping off on this planet on his way to somewhere else, somewhere he might fit in better.”
Nick Hornby
About a Boy
“That was his mother. When she wasn’t crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”
Nick Hornby
About a Boy
“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
“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
“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.”
Nick Hornby
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
“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
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
“You wouldn’t believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.”
Nick Hornby
About a Boy
