Quotes from Matt Haig

That it will never come again, Is what makes life so sweet. —EMILY DICKINSON

so every present moment is paying for a future one.

Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.

Nora wanted to live in a world where cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

She'd met Dan while living with Izzy in Tooting. Big smile, short beard. Visually, a TV vet. Fun, curious. He drank quite a bit, but always seemed immune to hangovers.

In T.S. Eliot's phrase from his Four Quartets, I was 'distracted from distraction by distraction'.

Bücher sind Bäume, die träumen.

the basis of depression as well as the difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when

Because, within the structure of the rules, you need to be free.

It's not the technique, it's the method. It's not the words, it's the melody.

He was, like so many of the men made large by history, rather mediocre in the flesh, the fine tailoring highlighting rather than hiding his physical shortcomings. […] A man made more for grand dinners than seafaring.

There is no rejection, there is only redirection. You can have everything and feel nothing.

I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

Yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Writing, then, is a kind of seeing. A way to see your insecurities more clearly. A way to shine a light on doubts and dreams and realise what they are actually about. It can dissolve a whole puddle of worries in the bright light of truth.

It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver.

if you see magic often enough it starts to look normal.

No one can make you feel bad about yourself without your consent.' Which meant that you can't control what people said about you, but you can control how you feel about what they said.

Åžok edici gerçek o anda, nihayet, zihninde netleÅŸti; Nora ölmek istemiyordu.

Each twig has travelled only one journey. But there are still other twigs. And there are also other todays. Other lives that would have been different if you'd taken different directions earlier in your life. This is a tree of life.

We are seeing ever more frequent ethical breaches, such as Cambridge Analytica's illicit harvesting of millions of psychological profiles through Facebook and the company's use of these to influence electoral results.

the basis of depression as well as the difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation.