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Nick Hornby Quotes about Feelings

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I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

Nick Hornby
Running, Song, Feelings
Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.169, Penguin

What good were real feelings anyway?

Nick Hornby
Real, Feelings, Real Feelings
Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.127, Penguin

She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.

Nick Hornby
Sadness, Feelings, Tragedy
Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.224, Penguin UK

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