Quotes from Matt Haig

But these are other lives. Other variants of me. Not me me.' 'Yes, but while you are experiencing them, it is you who has to pay the consequences.

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole.

Viata se misca destul de repede. Daca nu te opresti sa privesti in jur din cand in cand, s-ar putea s-o ratezi.

Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence.

Never underestimate the importance of small things,' Mrs Elm said.

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Things had faded between them until their friendship became just a vapour trail of sporadic Facebook and Instagram likes and emoji-filled birthday messages.

loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you.

Magazines are colourful, glossy print-based tools designed to fuel a sense of inadequacy within the reader. The aim of a magazine publisher being to make people feel too poor, fat, old, single, unhealthy, unfamous, ill informed, badly dressed, anxious, undersexed and generally depressed, while at the same time acting like they are solving these problems.

The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

So she stopped trying to think about what to write and, in sheer exasperation, just put down the first thing that came to her, the thing that she felt inside her like a defiant silent roar that could overpower any external destruction. The one truth she had, a truth

Because now she saw the kinds of things she could do when she put herself to work. And that, actually, the life she had been living had its own logic to it.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us.

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.

You see, sometimes, a single child believing in magic - if they believe enough - is enough to restore order to the universe.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

No. Es por todo. Parece imposible vivir sin hacer daño la gente.

Father Christmas?' said Father Vodol, suspiciously. 'It doesn't sound very memorable.

I know my own face too well to actually see it. Familiarity could make you a stranger to