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It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby
Home, People, Chemistry
"High Fidelity". www.imdb.com. 2000.

Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

Nick Hornby
Home, School, Should Have

Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.

Nick Hornby
Home, Lunch, Victory

And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to go home. I feel flat and there doesn't seem to be anything to look forward to, so I'd rather call it a day.

Nick Hornby
Party, Home, Tired
Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.65, Penguin

But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

Nick Hornby
Distance, School, Home
Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Nick Hornby
Art, Book, Home

I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.

Nick Hornby
Home, Holiday, Thinking
"A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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