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• 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.

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  Sadness, Feelings, Tragedy

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

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• Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Next Day

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

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  Mother, Eye, Sides

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.86, Penguin

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• There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now.
  (on David Beckham)

  Nick Hornby

  Sports, Stars, Doubt

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• …I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

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  Week, Happened

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.141, Penguin

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• That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

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  Mother, Cereal, Laughing

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.66, Penguin

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• I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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  Reading, Maps, Empires

  Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

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