Quotes from Matt Haig

do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

preserved in Nora's memory like a mosquito in amber.

THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more?

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 suppresed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale.

Jei per ilgai lauksi - teks ištarti "sudie" dar nepasakius "laba diena".

Po?util sem se osamljenega. Ne depresivnega. Le tisti nedolo?ljivi najstniški ob?utek, da te nih?e ne razume. Seveda se tudi sam nisem razumel. Zaradi marsi?esa sem si delal skrbi … ves ?as me je nekaj skrbelo. Skrbelo me ni le tisto, kar bi me vetjetno moralo skrbeti: sama skrb. Trajalo je celih enajst let, preden sem naslovil to vprašanje.

una suerte de divinidad doméstica también conocida como «perro»)

Love. Anaïs Nin called anxiety "love's greatest killer." But fortunately, the reverse is also true. Love is anxiety's greatest killer.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

I do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

I picked up these books and realised they both said '£8.99' on the back. The interpolation of the entire language I had done with the aid of Cosmopolitan meant I knew this was the price of the books, but I did not have any money. So I waited until no one was looking (a long time) and then I ran very fast out of the shop. I eventually settled into a walk, as running without clothes is not entirely compatible with external testicles, and then I started to read.

Za ljudi, ko radi berejo, velja, da naj bi bili osamljeni, meni pa so knjige pomenile pot iz osamljenosti. ?e si takšne vrste, da preve? razmišljaš o stvareh, ni ni?esar samotnejšega, kakor ?e si obkrožen z množico ljudi na drugi valovni dolžini.

He was probably visiting Ravi, Nora thought. Ravi was her brother's best friend. While Joe had given up the guitar and moved to London, for a crap IT job he hated, Ravi had stuck to Bedford. He played in a covers band now, called Slaughterhouse Four, doing pub gigs around town.

Illness has a lot to teach wellness.

The rook is my favorite piece.' she said. 'It's the one you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eyes on the queen, and the knight and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But is the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.

in quantum physics every alternative possibility happens simultaneously. All at once. In the same place. Quantum superposition.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you.

The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and the drums need to kick in. Something has to happen. Often that need comes from yourself. You make a phone call. You say, 'I can't do this life any more, I need to change.

Even more remarkable is his memory of beautiful moments within his ordeal. The sight of a clear, starry night sky overwhelmed him with awe. 'A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often

Look at that chessboard we put back in place", said Mrs Elm, soflty. "Look at how ordered and safe and peaceful it looks now, before a game starts. It´s a beautiful thing. But it is boring. It is dead. And yet the moment you make a move on that board, things change. Things begin to get more chaotic. And that chaos builds with every single move you make.

Entre a vida e a morte, há uma biblioteca — disse ela. — E, dentro dessa biblioteca, as prateleiras não têm fim. Cada livro oferece uma oportunidade de experimentar outra vida que você poderia ter vivido. De ver como as coisas seriam se tivesse feito outras escolhas... Você teria feito algo diferente, se houvesse a chance de desfazer tudo de que se arrepende?