Lines from the novel, About A Boy, by Nick Hornby.
November 15, 2006If you are having trouble, it’s nothing to do with what shoes you wear, I can tell you that for nothing.
Marcus, trust me, OK? I’ve been your mother for twelve years. I haven’t made too bad for it. I do think of it. I know what I’m doing.
That’s what life is, Marcus. You have to work out to what believe in, and then you have to stick to it. It’s hard, but it’s not fair. And at least, it is easy to understand.
Some things are a little more complicated than that, Will.
Because, most of us think that the point is something to do with work or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don’t have any of that. There’s nothing betwen you and despair, and you don’t seen a very desperate person.
People who like sex are usually pretty good at it.
Because . . . because the world is sexist and racist and full of injustice.
There are a lot of us who’ve spent half our lives looking forsomeone less different from us, and we haven’t found them so far.
It’s the hard thing in the world.
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