I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.’” I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it.
On Growing Up: “Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid… well, they’ve started to give me a little pang or something – not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret… I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: ‘I’m sorry, I’ve let you down. On Depression: “It’s brilliant, being depressed you can behave as badly as you like.” On Commitment: “I’ve committed to nothing… and that’s just suicide… by tiny, tiny increments.” Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” On Music: “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. In honor of that, here are some great quotes from the book I adore so very much.Īnd Nick? Thanks for understanding, and helping me through every new miserable experience. This weekend is Record Store Day, a holiday that I’m sure Nick Hornby’s record-shop-owning, music-loving protagonist Rob Fleming would appreciate. This book helped me realize who I was, before I even knew myself.
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