Quotes from Matt Haig

Are there any other lives at all or is it just the furnishings that change?

You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on.

Warm Don't worry about being cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Life is warmth. You'll be cool when you're dead. Head for the warm people. Head for life. Dream

But recently, now, I was starting to feel that you couldn't do mathematics with emotions. In protecting yourself from hurt you could create a new, subtler type of pain.

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead.

Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world

While fear might want us to imagine the worst is certain, the future—like everything else—remains uncertain, unpredictable, open, free.

Somehow I'd hoped that this would be the summer that I would discover that I was alive. The world my mom and dad said was out there waiting for me. That world doesn't actually exist.

They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

And it was then that Nora noticed the gun, a large rifle with a hefty brown handle, leaning against the wall at the far end of the room, under the coat hooks. The sight made her feel happy, somehow. Made her feel like her eleven-year-old self would have been proud. She was, it seemed, having an adventure.

It looks like she is standing still but actually she is walking. She is breaking out of the chains of the past.

Zvija?a je v tem, da se z depresijo in tesnobnostjo spoprijateljiš, si jima hvaležen, saj ti gre potem z njima veliko laže. Z njima sem se spoprijateljil tako, da sem se jima zahvalil za ob?utljivost.

As a black hole forms, it creates an immense gamma-ray burst, blinding whole galaxies with light and destroying millions of worlds. You could disappear at any second. This one. Or this one. Or this one. Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you'd be happy to die doing.

You don't stop the rain by telling it to stop. Sometimes you just have to let it pour, let it soak you to your skin.

Every book provides a chance to try 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?

Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?

I hit rock bottom, but I found something solid there.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations. The books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

You can clone human brains but not what is stored inside them

The only fear of missing out that matters is the fear of missing out on yourself.

An increased sexual imagination. (Fear of death often seems to counterbalance itself with thoughts of sex.)

In that life she had a book of Emily Dickinson poems beside her bed and she had a playlist called 'Extreme States of Euphoria' and another one called 'The Glue to Fix Me When I Am Broken'.

Il disperdersi di una luce distante crea un tramonto. L'infrangersi delle onde oceaniche su una spiaggia è regolato dalle maree, che a loro volta sono conseguenza delle forze gravitazionali esercitate dal sole e dalla luna, nonché dalla rotazione terrestre. Queste sono cause. Il mistero è come tutto ciò possa diventare bello.

Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.