Quotes from Matt Haig

There was never a single moment, though, where I would have said—or felt—that I didn't love her. I loved her totally. Friendship-love and love-love.

Such a sadness to that word, don't you think? Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear [...] What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.

Allez avec confiance dans la direction de vos rêves disait Thoreau. Vivez la vie que vous avez imaginée

Bütün güzellikler vahÅŸi ve özgürdür.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

Nora felt a warm glow. Not just from the pictures, which were indisputably lovely, but from the contact with Izzy.

Life isn't simply made of the things we do, but the things we don't do too. And every moment of our life is a . . . kind of turning.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small.

Moments ago she had been in the garden with Ash and Nora and Plato, a garden humming with life and love, and now she was here.

I realized that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered

Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines. ... But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that comes clear.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

Her yaÅŸam milyonlarca seçim ihtiva eder. Kimi büyük, kimi küçük. Fakat bir karar?n yerine baÅŸka bir karar geçtiÄŸinde, bütün sonuçlar deÄŸiÅŸir. DönüÅŸü olmayan bir sapma gerçekleÅŸir ve bu da baÅŸka sapmalara yol açar.

Your life will have 30,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.

Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.

she'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe

you could die in that life, but you won't have died before you enter the life because this Midnight Library is not one of ghosts. It is not a library of corpses. It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility.

In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself. There is nothing new it needs to notice about your bedroom. No potential external threats, just internal ones. By forcing yourself into a new physical space, preferably in a different country, you end up inevitably focusing a bit more on the world outside your head

Albert Camus said, "There is no love of life without despair of life.

Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

Fill-o . . . fill-o-wosso-fee . . .' 'Philosophy?

But because of that luck, we need to cherish this life we have. And if we can not only feel lucky but also other things—calm, happy, healthy—then why not? Why not know what the world can do to us? Because that knowledge can help us.

Mrs Elm had short grey hair and a kind and mildly crinkled oval face sitting pale above her turtle-green polo neck. She was quite old. But she was also the person most on Nora's wavelength in the entire school, and even on days when it wasn't raining she would spend her afternoon break in the small library.