Quotes from Matt Haig

He loved you as much as you loved him, and maybe he didn't want you to see him die. You see, cats know. They understand when their time is up. He went outside because he was going to die, and he knew it.

I used to sit with the bedside lamp on, reading for about two hours after Andrea had gone to sleep, until my eyes were dry and sore, always seeking and never quite finding, but with that feeling of being tantalizingly close.

The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.

did notice that some of the buildings were larger and—relatively speaking—more ornately designed than others. Temples to the orgasm, I imagined.

They have mental hospitals and body hospitals, as if one doesn't directly affect the other. And so, if they can't accept that a mind is directly responsible for the body of the same person, they are hardly likely to understand how a mind—albeit not a human one—can affect the body of someone else.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear, Tom. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock.

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

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. 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.

Fear makes us curious. Sadness makes us philosophize. ("To be or not to be?" is a daily question for many depressives.)

Dedicamos tanto tiempo a desear que nuestras vidas sean distintas, a compararnos con otras personas , con otras versiones de nosotros mismos... Cuando realmente todas las vidas tienen cierto grado de cosas buenas y cierto grado de cosas malas

To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly, over and over, until the end of time.

Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse. I AM ALIVE.

After a while, with a dog on your lap, you realize there is a necessity to stroke it.

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead. I just didn't want to be alive.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever.

If one advances confidently,' Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.' He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. 'I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.' -The Midnight Library

I felt the beautiful melancholy of being human, captured perfectly in the setting of a sun. Because, as with a sunset, to be human was to be in-between things; a day, bursting with desperate colour as it headed irreversibly towards night

All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely

By doing this, apparently they have earned the right to change its name to "beef," which is the monosyllable furthest away from "cow," because the last thing a human wants to think about when eating cow is an actual cow.

to be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act

Lincoln didn't do great work because he solved the problem of his melancholy; the problem of his melancholy was all the more fuel for the fire of his great work.

Between life and death there is a library

There comes a moment in every life when we realise there is no land beyond the ice. There is just more ice. And then the world we know continues again. You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love. The time ahead of you is like the land beyond the ice. You can guess what it could be like but you can never know. All you know is the moment you are in.

if you speak to yourself people think you are mad but if you write the same things they think you are clever.