A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
Nick HornbyI would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
Nick HornbyI'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.
Nick HornbyWe're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
Nick Hornby