Matt Haig

The Midnight Library

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  • Ksenia Lukinahas quoted3 years ago
    Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead’.
  • Shweta Sarojhas quoted4 years ago
    ‘Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.’
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.
  • я с н оhas quoted3 years ago
    The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil – rich, fertile soil.
  • я с н оhas quoted3 years ago
    ‘Not a massive demand for philosophers in Bedford, if I’m honest,
  • я с н оhas quoted3 years ago
    ‘Well, far be it from me to say, but there is more to this world than swimming really fast. There are many different possible lives ahead of you.
  • Dmitry Babenkohas quoted4 years ago
    It reminded her that everyone was better off without her. You get near a black hole and the gravitational pull drags you into its bleak, dark reality.
  • Dmitry Babenkohas quoted4 years ago
    ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.’
    She was a waterfall of apologies. She was drowning in herself.
  • Dmitry Babenkohas quoted4 years ago
    ‘Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.’
    She didn’t correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn’t tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.
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