Everyone's Reading Bastard Quotes

“It was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the sheer drudgery of marriage and monogamy.”
― Nick Hornby, Everyone's Reading Bastard

“He was hoping that when this was all over, his spiritual overdraft would have been paid off, and he’d be allowed to use the cash machine again.”
― Nick Hornby, Everyone's Reading Bastard

“They were expressions of who he was and what he’d become, and he couldn’t do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his steps back and back and back, until he was fifteen or ten or three years old, and start again.”
― Nick Hornby, Everyone's Reading Bastard

“He really liked this woman. Or, rather, he was really attracted to her, and nothing she had said so far had weakened the attraction.”
― Nick Hornby, Everyone's Reading Bastard

“That’s what family stories were—amusing accounts of the messes and the fuckups. Take away the love and the laughter, narrate the stories as if the characters had acted with malice and self-absorption, and everybody was in a bleak independent film about alcoholism and schizophrenia and child abuse.”
― Nick Hornby, Everyone's Reading Bastard

“already a national institution: a cartoon cad,”
― Nick Hornby, Everyone's Reading Bastard

“Take away the love and the laughter, narrate the stories as if the characters had acted with malice and self-absorption, and everybody was in a bleak independent film about alcoholism and schizophrenia and child abuse.”
― Nick Hornby, Everyone's Reading Bastard