"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."

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Source : Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

Nick Hornby

#Relationship Quotes #Boyfriend Quotes #Husband Quotes

“The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.”
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
“A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'”
“When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.”
“What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.”
“What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.”
“The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesnâ€™t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end upâ€“wordless, inarticulateâ€”by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.”
“Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.”

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