Quotes from Matt Haig

Places are places and memories are memories.

There was death. Violent, oblivious death, in bear form, staring at her with its black eyes. And she knew then, more than she'd known anything, that she wasn't ready to die.

Wat tegenwoordig sneller gaat dan vroeger: Berichten. Auto's. Olympische sprinters. Nieuws. Rekensnelheid. Foto's. Geld overboeken. Reizen. Groei van de wereldbevolking. Ontbossing van het Amazonewoud. Navigatie. Technologische vooruitgang. Relaties. Politieke incidenten. Je gedachten.

And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.

Her husband was a mystery she no longer had the energy to unravel. Anyway, it was known to be the first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

Querer es una palabra muy curiosa. Querer implica carencia. A veces, si llenamos esa carencia con alguna cosa, el deseo original desaparece por completo. Quizá tu problema no es lo que quieres, sino aquello de lo que careces. Quizá exista una vida que realmente quieras vivir

and advised I take things 'one day at a time', as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible number of places across a near-infinite amount of solar systems.

Depression is kind of quantum physics of thought and emotion. It reveals what is normally hidden. It unravels you

That humans are not at the centre of things. You know, the planet is in orbit around the sun. That was a fucking hilarious joke in the 1500s, but Copernicus wasn't a comedian. He was, apparently, the least funny man of the whole Renaissance. He made Raphael look like Richard Pryor. But he was telling the fucking truth.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.

I suppose the way I understand my life is as a kind of Russian doll, with different versions inside other versions, each one enclosing the other, whereby the life before isn't seen from the outside but is still there.

Sembra impossibile vivere senza ferire le persone». «Perché è così». «E allora perché vivere?». «Beh, a essere sinceri, anche morire fa soffrire le altre persone. Dunque, quale vita vorresti scegliere adesso?».

there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universes. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe.

We humans might have evolved too far. The prize for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness

Yesterday I knew I had no future, and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet today, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential.

Sometimes the links between depression, anxiety, and productivity are undeniable.

Where we are from there are no crimes of passion because there is no passion.

So anyway, the mind-boggling bit is that the theory hints that the entire universe is just two-dimensional information on a cosmological horizon and that everything we think we see in three dimensions is really as much an illusion as a 3D movie, and it could all be a simulation.

When I let go of what I am,' said the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, 'I become what I might be.

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her.

This might explain why rates of obesity are themselves dangerously rising. If we were happier with our bodies, we'd be kinder to them.

There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano. But her life was a cacophony of nonsense. A piece that could have gone in wonderful directions, but now went nowhere at all.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.