I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.
Nick HornbyWe can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
Nick HornbyI suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.
Nick HornbyThat was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
Nick Hornby