“Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
More from Nick Hornby
“The life I want, there's no shortcut.”
“I'd be perfectly happy with a tin of salmon.”
“Nobody does anything worth doing with a degree.”
“I'm trying to work out what makes good things good.”