Matt Haig

9. Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else. Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently.

You have felt other things. You will feel other things again.

Where talk exists, so does hope.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.’

Listen, just listen, just get this through your head, okay – you make it, and on the other side of this there is life. L-I-F-E. You understand? And there will be stuff you enjoy. And just stop worrying about worrying. Just worry – you can’t help that – but don’t meta-worry.

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

Nothing lasts for ever. This pain won’t last. The pain tells you it will last. Pain lies. Ignore it. Pain is a debt paid off with time.

ut actually, they do. You don’t think they do because the only reference point is yourself.