Nick Hornby Quotes

I've always felt more comfortable in the company of women, and as far as girlfriends go, they've each been a learning experience. You meet someone at a certain point in your life, then break apart, but you always share that time.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.

In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

I've always had great relationships and stayed really good friends with the guys I've dated.

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

And where love ends, hate begins

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.