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I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL it. That's why we're here, no? — Matt Haig

The night moves at the speed of panic. — Matt Haig

This was jazz music. It was full of the complexity and contradictions that I would soon learn made humans human. — Matt Haig

An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could have almost written a poem. — Matt Haig

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us. — Matt Haig

Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from. — Matt Haig

Open your mind, this is only a song,
But the way to be happy is to admit you were wrong. — Matt Haig

In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths. — Matt Haig

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands. — Matt Haig

If God exists, what is He but a mathematician? — Matt Haig

A watched pot never boils. That's all you need to know about quantum physics. — Matt Haig

You gave up the universe for a life on the sofa?' 'I didn't realise that at the time. — Matt Haig

Be nice to other people. At the universal level, they are you. — Matt Haig

Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting. — Matt Haig

Unlike a book or a film depression doesn't have to be about something. — Matt Haig

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence. — Matt Haig

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, — Matt Haig

I love you, she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive. — Matt Haig

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?"
"Pretty much. — Matt Haig

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it. — Matt Haig

Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything. — Matt Haig

You can clone human brains but not what is stored inside them — Matt Haig

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out. — Matt Haig

To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time. — Matt Haig

Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with. — Matt Haig

I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things. — Matt Haig

The die, and so they have impatience. — Matt Haig

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you'd be happy to die doing. — Matt Haig

I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake. — Matt Haig

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. — Matt Haig

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. — Matt Haig

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction. — Matt Haig

Love is what the humans are all about but they don't understand it. If they understood it, then it would disappear. — Matt Haig

A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more. — Matt Haig

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive. — Matt Haig

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. — Matt Haig

Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard. — Matt Haig

Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes. — Matt Haig

This was such a strange world. Of course, when viewed afresh there were only strange worlds but this one must have been strangest of all. — Matt Haig

Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves. — Matt Haig

Shame is a shackle. Free yourself. — Matt Haig

What was reality? An objective truth? A collective illusion? A majority opinion? The product of historical understanding? A bream? — Matt Haig

Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions. — Matt Haig

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie. — Matt Haig

Maybe once you had known fear and love and beauty, you could never unknow them. — Matt Haig

Well, what the fuck would an extraterrestrial life form want to come here for? — Matt Haig

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you. — Matt Haig

Alcohol in the evening is very enjoyable. Hangovers in the morning are very unpleasant. At some point you have to choose: evenings, or mornings. — Matt Haig

Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through. — Matt Haig

I was drinking a cup of tea. I actually enjoyed tea. It was so much better than coffee. It tasted like comfort. — Matt Haig

Ain't no choice in love and life — Matt Haig

A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane. — Matt Haig

(The main advantage of books over life is that they can be redrafted and redrafted, whereas life, alas, is always a first draft.) — Matt Haig

You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic. — Matt Haig

Happiness is not out here. It is in there. — Matt Haig

Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax. — Matt Haig

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely. — Matt Haig

The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. — Matt Haig

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation. — Matt Haig

By thinking of the cloud, I thirsted for the raindrop. — Matt Haig

Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form. — Matt Haig

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human. — Matt Haig

Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre. — Matt Haig

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. — Matt Haig

Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. — Matt Haig

Be alive. That is your supreme duty to the world. — Matt Haig

Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt. — Matt Haig

Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved? — Matt Haig

In your mind, change the name of every day to Saturday. And change the name of work to play. — Matt Haig

It was a kind of laugh that made me wish there was no air for those manic waves to travel on and reach my ears. — Matt Haig

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves. — Matt Haig

So most of what we know now will be disproved or reassessed in the future. That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt. — Matt Haig

So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one. — Matt Haig

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

The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality. — Matt Haig

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless. — Matt Haig

Ari believed we are all a simulation. Matter is an illusion. Everything is silicon. He could be right. But your emotions? They're solid. — Matt Haig

You shouldn't have been born. Your existence is as close to impossible as can be. To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself. — Matt Haig

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are. — Matt Haig

But a human, in its own small way, was a kind of miraculous achievement, in mathematical terms. — Matt Haig

We are all potential depressives, but that is never going to be all we are. — Matt Haig

Boring people stay alive. Aunt Eda said. — Matt Haig

History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion. — Matt Haig

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts. — Matt Haig

It's not you. It's them. (No, really. It is.) — Matt Haig

Your brain is open. Never let it be closed. — Matt Haig

It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you. — Matt Haig

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. — Matt Haig

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them. — Matt Haig

Pain is a debt paid off with time. — Matt Haig

To read, to seek, to know. — Matt Haig

Marriage was a truly alien concept. There probably weren't enough editions of Cosmopolitan on the planet for me to ever understand it. — Matt Haig

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin. — Jeanette Winterson

27. Dogs are geniuses of loyalty. And that is a good kind of genius to have. — Matt Haig

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite. — Matt Haig

He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced. — Matt Haig

It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page. — Matt Haig

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love. — Matt Haig

Tough love doesn't work. Turns out that just good old 'love' is enough. — Matt Haig

Don't be proud of only liking realism. It is like being proud of not having an imagination. — Matt Haig