“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure… — 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
“She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I feel the sheer unfathomable marvel that is this strange life we have, here on earth, the seven billion of us, clustered… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“A human life is on average eighty Earth years or around thirthy thousand Earth days. Which means they are born, they make… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid… — 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
