Buchzitate von Nick Hornby

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

Man kann sich über jeden lustig machen, der unglücklich ist, man muss nur grausam genug sein.

Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

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.

Ich verliebte mich in den Fußball, wie ich mich später in Frauen verlieben sollte: plötzlich, unerklärlich, unkritisch und ohne einen Gedanken an den Schmerz und die Zerrissenheit zu verschwenden, die damit verbunden sein würden.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Aber es gibt eigentlich nur einen Skater, und der heißt Tony Hawk. Klar, es gibt nicht nur einen. Aber er ist DER SKATER schlechthin. Er ist die J.K. Rowling unter den Skatern, der BigMac, der iPod, die Xbox. Für mich gibt es nur eine Entschuldigung, Tony Hawk nicht zu kennen, nämlich dass man sich nicht für Skaten interessiert.