“I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that… — 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… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in… — 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 book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It's a wonder they ever get out of bed at all. But they do, repeatedly, thousands of times each. And not only… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“A book is a map … There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“In fiecare viata exista un moment. O criza. Una care spune: „Ceea ce cred e gresit”. Li se intampla tuturor, singura diferenta… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“That was four people right there who loved me. I wished like mad, in that moment, that I had no one at… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“40 pieces of helpful advice: No. 31 - Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.” — 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
Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Places don't matter to people any more. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Umanii faceau mereu lucruri pe care nu la placea sa le faca. De fapt, in conformitate cu cea mai buna estimare a… — 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
“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
