852 Quotes by Matt Haig

I stared at the tweet I was about to post. It wasn't going to add anything to my life. Or anyone else's life. It was just going to lead to more checking of my phone, like Pepys with his pocket watch. I pressed delete, and felt a strange relief as I watch each letter disappear.

People you love never die.That is what Omai had said, all those years ago.And he was right. They don't die. Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide shops in unfamiliar waters. If you stop mourning them, and start listening to them, they still have the power to change your life. They can, in short, be salvation.

For centuries I have thought all my despair is grief. But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love.

Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don’t appear.

Back in Mother Ivy’s time I would have been obliged to cook you gingerbread and show you my spickle dancing, and yet now I have permission to chop you up into little pieces. I cry myself to sleep every night, and feel dead inside, but society is definitely improving.

All of our earthly concerns are quite transient compared to the sky.

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

I'm sorry," I say. "About being a bit odd sometimes, at school." Camille shakes her head. "You really have to stop saying that. Incessant apologizing is never an attractive trait." "You're right. The thing is, I really am quite bad, you know, with people." "Ah, them. People. Yes, it's hard." "And I have a lot, sometimes, going on in my head." "Join the club." "There's a club?" "No. There are too many people in clubs. But it's fine. Be how you want to be.