Quotes from Matt Haig

Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

They are all killing themselves. Because this parasitic worm grows inside them, to become like a full-grown aquatic creature, and as it grows it takes over the brain function of the grasshopper, so the grasshopper thinks, "Hey, I really like water" and so they divebomb into water and die. And it's happening all the time. Google it. Google "grasshopper suicide".

When you die the last thing you want is for your death to leak out and infect those left behind, for those loved ones to become a kind of living dead. And yet, inevitably, that often happens. It has happened to me.

If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story.

Dar certurile erau doar la suprafata. Daca te scufunzi indeajuns sub un val, apa e inca linistita.

The humans are an arrogant species, defined by violence and greed. They have taken their home planet, the only one they currently have access to, and placed it on the road to destruction. They have created a world of divisions and categories and have continually failed to see the similarities among themselves.

I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe

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

She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.

La facultate, prietenii nostri ne-au considerat mereu un cuplu fericit. Si chiar eram. Mai putin in cealalta jumatate a timpului in care eram un cuplu nefericit.

Fire She gasped. The sensations were sudden. The noise and the water. She had her mouth open and she choked. The tang and sting of salt water. She tried to touch her feet on the bottom of the pool but she was out of her depth so she quickly

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.

She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real life lesson

Sometimes just the sight of a tree or sunset can smack you with the power of every tree or sunset you have ever seen

The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

Nimic nu dureaza la nesfarsit. Durerea asta n-o sa tina la nesfarsit. Durerea minte. Ignor-o! Durerea e o datorie pe care o platesti cu timpul.

If you ever are on Earth and want whatever you are doing to end, look for the button with the red symbol on it.)

excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.

Two plus two equals car accident.

Sometimes just to say you're truth out loud is enough to find others like you

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. It is not where we are, but where we want to go, and all that.

For now, I do what I know keeps me just about level. Exercise definitely helps me, as does yoga and absorbing myself in something or someone I love, so I keep doing these things. I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.