852 Quotes by Matt Haig

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 hours.

Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me when he crashed. It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me me and it wasnt there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn’t know if that was enough.

So most of what we know now will be disproved or reassessed in the future. That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

It is easier to learn to be soaked and happy than to learn how to stop the rain.

Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and Short. Paragraphs. Light was everything. But so, increasingly, were books. I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.

What doesn’t kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn’t kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn’t kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn’t kill you.

I don’t know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone in the world is a little bit to blame for everything.

Think of how detached we are from nature. How we have to do so much to it before we can bottle it and put the name ‘wild’ on it.

You can’t change the past. You can’t change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.