The best Quotes from A Long Way Down

The best Quotes from A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down is a 2005 novel written by British author Nick Hornby. It is a dark comedy, playing off the themes of suicide, angst, depression and promiscuity.

Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.

Nick Hornby

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Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

Nick Hornby

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There's nothing you can't f up if you try hard enough.

Nick Hornby

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Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

Nick Hornby

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Puns Relationships Family

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

Nick Hornby

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Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Nick Hornby

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I read the f*ck out of every book I can get my hands on.

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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

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I've committed to nothing... and that's just suicide by tiny, tiny increments.

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I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

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It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

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It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

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It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

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My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

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That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.

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It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

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I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

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I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

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

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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

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I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

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There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Nobody dies a virgin. Life f*cks us all.

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It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Louis C. K. - 2017

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Relationships Marriage

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

William Paul Young in The Shack

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Friendship Family

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

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'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

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Thinking Talking

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

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Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breast that I would try to touch her between her legs. It was like trying to borrow a dollar, getting turned down, and asking for 50 grand instead.

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The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

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