Quotes from Matt Haig

What a gift it was to be normal! We're all walking on these unseen tightropes when really we could slip at any second and come face to face with all the existential horrors that only lie dormant in our minds.)

You don't punish anyone other than yourself by keeping hate inside you.

Davvero potrei continuare a navigare per sempre attraverso la vita sentendomi così? Una nave alla fine si deve fermare. Deve raggiungere un porto, un riparo, una destinazione, nota o ignota. Deve arrivare da qualche parte e fermarsi lì, altrimenti qual è lo scopo di una nave?

sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

Self-forgiveness makes the world better. You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.

the point of life is to give yourself to yourself.

And every moment lasts for ever. It lives on. Somewhere. Somehow.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it.

So, if they believed in themselves—the logic must go—why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely? •

Don't believe in good or bad, or winning and losing, or victory and defeat, or up and down. At your lowest and at your highest, whether you are happy or despairing or calm or angry, there is a kernel of you that stays the same. That is the you that matters.

saya rasa kehidupan selalu menyediakan alasan agar kita tidak mati, seandainya kita memasang telinga baik-baik. Alasan-alasan itu bisa berasal dari masa lalu - mungkin orang-orang yang membesarkan kita, sahabat-sahabat, atau para mantan kekasih - atau dari masa depan - ada kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang kita matikan.

Mum turned around in the passenger seat and looked at me and smiled and the smile had a slightly crumpled quality, her eyes glazed with tears. I felt it. The weight of Mum. The weight of being a son that had gone wrong. The weight of being loved. The weight of being a disappointment. The weight of being a hope that hadn't happened the way it should have.

their friendship became just a vapour trail of sporadic Facebook and Instagram likes

Remember Feeling you have no time doesn't mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn't mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn't mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven't achieved enough doesn't mean you haven't achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn't make you less complete.

Love was a way to live forever in a single moment

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all" ? Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

If only we could find a way to stop time,' said her husband. 'That's what we need to work on. You know, for when a moment of happiness floats along. We could swing our net and catch it like a butterfly, and have that moment for ever.

You see, everyone's lives could have ended up an infinite number of ways.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological animal.

Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.

But I have found over the years that by reading about other people who have suffered, survived, and overcome despair, I have felt comforted. It has given me hope.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just...' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

Chi teme di soffrire, soffre già perché teme.

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