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Juliet, Naked QUOTES

Juliet, Naked QUOTES

1 " One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

2 " Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping? "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

3 " Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

4 " Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

5 " She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

6 " I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

7 " And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is… Well, it’s just you. And when you go, it’s gone. Nothing abstract about it. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

8 " We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

9 " He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

10 " easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

11 " For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

12 " The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

13 " So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

14 " We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

15 " The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

16 " But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

17 " He was now beginning to wonder whether the jigsaw was the correct metaphor for relationships between me and women after all. It didn't take account of the sheer stubbornness of human beings, their determination to affix themselves to another even if they didn't fit. They didn't care about jutting off at weird angles, and they didn't care about phone booths and Mary, Queen of Scots. They were motivated not by seamless and sensible matching, but by eyes, mouths, smiles, minds, breasts and chests and bottoms, wit, kindness, charm, romantic history and all sorts of other things that made straight edges impossible to achieve. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

18 " She stopped typing. If she’d been using pen and paper, she would have screwed the paper up in disgust, but there wasn’t a satisfying equivalent with email, seeing as everything was designed to stop you making a mistake. She needed a fuck-it key, something that made a satisfying ka-boom noise when you thumped it. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

19 " 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. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked

20 " It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong. "

― Nick Hornby , Juliet, Naked