Evelin

“Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…”
― Alan Rickman

“It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down