Quotes from Matt Haig

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another.

Lives are lost in order to save more lives. That is what the society is fighting.

If there is a sunset, stop and look at it. Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

live any life we want. Any life. Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.

as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards. The society was nothing – it had no

he was a good person, and good people were rare

It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.

È la gioia più semplice, la più pura del mondo, penso, far ridere qualcuno a cui vuoi bene.

The Earth´s sun can look very much alone, yet it has relatives all across this galaxy, stars that were born in the exact same place, but which were now very far away from each other, lighting very different worlds. I was like a sun.

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

To learn is to live

The quiz. Earlier. The twenty-sided polygon. Well, a twenty-sided polygon is called an icosagon. I knew the answer but didn't tell you because I didn't want you to mock me. And now I don't really care because I don't think me knowing some things that you don't should bother you.

the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

somewhere in the universe of my soul a fiery, life-giving star collapsed, and a very black hole began to form.

advertising their bad diets with the most ill-advised attire.

Nora must have looked tired because quite a few of her colleagues told her that she did, but maybe it was just that there weren't many places in the conversation that she could enter with confidence. She felt like a learner driver at a busy junction, nervously waiting for a clear and safe patch of road.

That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes. (There is a tree in California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine that was found, after an intensive ring count, to be five thousand and sixty-five years old.)

And, for the first time, Nora worried about herself as if she was actually someone else.

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

You might need to stop worrying about other people's approval

It is lonely, this world, without a friend.

of Plato's Republic and Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, which she did own in her root

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.