Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with. — Matt Haig Love Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of life that matters. It’s the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.” — Matt Haig Burrowing Copy Share Image
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?” “Pretty much.” — Matt Haig Finding the right person Copy Share Image
“Unlike a book or a film depression doesn’t have to be about something.” — Matt Haig Book Copy Share Image
“Dogs are geniuses of loyalty. And that is a good kind of genius to have.” — Matt Haig Animal Copy Share Image
“Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.” — Matt Haig Emotion Copy Share Image
When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels.… — Matt Haig Books Copy Share Image
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Art Copy Share Image
“I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in… — Matt Haig Fixation Copy Share Image
“Nu incerca tot timpul sa fii cool, indiferent, rece. Tot universul e rece. Faramele caldute sunt cele care conteaza” — Matt Haig Amor Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.” — Matt Haig Anger Copy Share Image
I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped… — Matt Haig Inspirational 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other… — Matt Haig Depression Copy Share Image
“The rook is my favorite piece.’ she said. ‘It’s the one you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
“It made me lonely. And when I say lonely, I mean the kind of loneliness that howls through you like a desert… — Matt Haig Loneliness Copy Share Image
“You couldn't be a little bit human in the same way you couldn't be a little bit in love. It was all… — Matt Haig Ability to love Copy Share Image
“We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter… — Matt Haig Fear 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," I say. "About being a bit odd sometimes, at school." Camille shakes her head. "You really have to stop saying… — 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… — Matt Haig Phone call Copy Share Image
“He has spent weeks on the pristine, frosty shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. He has drunk himself stupid in the fairy-tale… — Matt Haig Buenos aires Copy Share Image
“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure… — Matt Haig Happiness Copy Share Image
“And it has stayed there, calmly in its spot, growing slowly, producing leaves, losing leaves, producing more, as those mammoths became extinct,… — Matt Haig Flower Copy Share Image
“Well, what the fuck would an extraterrestrial life form want to come here for?” — Matt Haig Extraterrestrial Copy Share Image
I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality. — Matt Haig Belief Copy Share Image
“If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. — Matt Haig Beauty Copy Share Image
To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.' — Matt Haig Copy Share Image