Quotes from Matt Haig

As she switched to freestyle she realised it wasn't her fault that her parents had never been able to love her the way parents were meant to: without condition.

It is the contemplation of absurd odds. We are all inside a dream that is real. We are the fires conjured from nothing. We exist out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

I stacked the days up like Jenga blocks, imagining I was making progress, and then—crash—along would come a five-hour panic attack or a day of total apocalyptic darkness, and those Jenga days would topple back down again.

We have handed over our instincts to the hands of a clock. Increasingly, we serve time rather than time serving us. We fret about time. We wonder where time has gone. We are obsessed with time.

Una podía comer en los mejores restaurantes, tomar parte de todos los placeres sensuales, cantar en São Paulo ante veinte mil personas, recibir chaparrones de aplausos, viajar a los confines de la Tierra, tener millones de seguidores en las redes, ganar medallas olímpicas. Pero nada de esto cobraba sentido sin amor.

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she wondered if her parents had ever been in love or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person. A game where you grabbed the first person you could find when the music stopped.

Not just in terms of the stuff of modern life, but its values, too. The values that cause us to want more than we have. To worship work above play. To compare the worst bits of ourselves with the best bits of other people. To feel like we always lack something.

temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

So this was love. Two life-forms in mutual reliance. I was meant to be thinking I was watching weakness, something to scorn, but I wasn't thinking that at all.

and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to . . . —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

She imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about her unborn children than her unwritten books.

Laughter flapped out of people like bats from a cave.

I am absolutely sure, word for word, she then said: 'There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy.

To all the health workers. And the care workers. Thank you.

How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?" The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

A cow is an Earth-dwelling animal, a domesticated and multipurpose ungulate, which humans treat as a one-stop shop for food, liquid refreshment, fertilizer, and designer footwear. The humans farm it and cut its throat and then cut it up and package it and refrigerate it and sell it and cook it.

Imagine all the time we had was bottled up, like wine, and handed over to us. How would we make that bottle last? By sipping slowly, appreciating the taste, or by gulping?

Not everything is a war, sweetheart.' 'Of course it is

You are the library card.

The news could be more accurately described as the war and money show.

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