Nick Hornby Good Quotations

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives in a city, or shops in a supermarket, or watches TV, or reads a newspaper, or drives a car, or eats frozen pizzas. A nice life, possibly, with a huge slice of luck and a little spare cash. And maybe even a good life if... Well, let's not go into all that. But rich and beautiful lives seem to be a discontinued line.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.