About A Boy Quotes

“This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“What good were real feelings anyway?”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“He'd still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“U pojedinim trenucima, duboko u sebi jednostavno je znao da će se naviknuti na to nešto, što god to bilo, jer je u životu već naučio da neke teške stvari vrlo brzo postaju lakše.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“Ali sam posve sam. Postojim samo ja. Ne stavljam sebe na prvo mjesto jer jednostavno nema nikog drugog.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“Moguće je posve zatvoriti vrata životu. A ne otvaraš li mu vrata, kako će ući?”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy