Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me when… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Sa asculti muzica, mi-am dat eu seama, nu era altceva decat placerea de a numara fara sa iti dai seama ca numeri.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Beauty--be not caused," said Emily Dickinson. "It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
