Nick Hornby Quotes

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

All's love, yet all's law.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

Love is a contradiction.

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.