852 Quotes by Matt Haig

People believed in witches because it made things easier. People don’t just need an enemy, they need an explanation. And it’s often useful, in unsettled times, where ignorance is.

And when a joke is powerful enough, you don’t laugh, you scream. Yes, when the mask slips you scream out loud for all the terror in the world, and I screamed then.

Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.

Don’t worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.

If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.

It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.

Shame is a shackle. Free yourself.

And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.