852 Quotes by Matt Haig

Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity... Love was a way to live forever in a single moment, and it was also a way to see yourself as you had never actually seen yourself, and made you realise – having done so – that this view was a more meaningful one than any of your previous self-perceptions and self-deceptions.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

You need to feel life’s terror to feel its wonder.

Familiarity could make you a stranger to yourself.

That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.

Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.

A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.

Which is to say: don’t kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.

You get up. You put on your clothes. And then you put on your personality. Choose wisely.