Quotes from Matt Haig

turtle-green polo neck. She was quite old.

After all, humans – especially adult ones – want to believe the most mundane truths possible. They need to, in order to stop their world-views, and their sanity, from capsizing and plunging them into the vast ocean of the incomprehensible.

Nu incerca tot timpul sa fii cool, indiferent, rece. Tot universul e rece. Faramele caldute sunt cele care conteaza

The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

She wondered how many Dans there were in the world, dreaming of things they would hate if they actually got them. And how many were pushing people into their delusional idea of happiness?

Tragedia e doar comedia care nu a ajuns la indeplinire. Intr-o buna zi vom rade de asta. Vom rade de tot.

Leggere] – è importante perché fornisce uno spazio per esistere al di là della realtà che ci è data. È così che gli esseri umani si fondono. Le menti si collegano. Grazie ai sogni. All'empatia. Alla comprensione. Alla possibilità di fuga. Leggere è amore in azione.

No wonder he pissed on the carpet and ate the sofa. This wasn't the life he'd asked for.

No creo que tu problema fuera el pánico escénico. O el miedo a casarte. Creo que tu problema era el miedo a la vida.

And then there were fish. And some of the fish thought long and hard and decided the sea was a bit limiting. It was okay, but there weren't any bananas in the sea, and they were beginning to fancy a banana.

To be is to let go

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. These books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

Porque, Nora, a veces la única manera de aprender es vivir.

He had studied Art History and put his in-depth knowledge of Rubens and Tintoretto to incredible use by becoming head of PR for a brand of protein flapjacks.

I have only been alive for four hundred and thirty-nine years, which is of course nowhere near long enough to understand the minimal facial expressions of the average teenage boy.

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.

inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)

Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world? Not just in terms of the stuff of modern life, but its values, too. The values that cause us to want more than we have. To worship work above play. To compare the worst bits of ourselves with the best bits of other people.

Dünya'da yaÅŸarken bir yere varmak için epey zaman harcamak zorundas?n?z, yollar, raylar, kariyerler, iliÅŸkiler, her ÅŸeyde böyle bu." Sf. 7

scrolling through other people's happy lives, waiting for something to happen.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

If you are scared when there is nothing to be scared of, eventually your brain has to give you things. And so that classic expression - 'the only thing to fear is fear itself' - becomes a kind of meaningless taunt.

However, when humans forget to breathe they also forget they are alive, and this is dangerous. It can lead to a loss of perspective, and a focus on things like mortgages, professional rivalry, the car they should be driving, and whether there is a need to refurbish the kitchen

Marriage was a truly alien concept. There probably weren't enough editions of Cosmopolitan on the planet for me to ever understand it.