Quotes From "Juliet Naked" By Nick Hornby

Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping? Nick Hornby

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. Nick Hornby

Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. Nick Hornby

She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything Nick Hornby

I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper. Nick Hornby

And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is… Well, it’s just you. And when you go, it’s gone. Nothing abstract about it. Nick Hornby

We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons. Nick Hornby

He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else. Nick Hornby

Easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. Nick Hornby