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Category: Matt Haig

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don’t just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world – or a life – without them.

Life, Friends, Alone

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn’t mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

Money, Book, Be Thankful

I’d love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, ‘Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.’

Love, Parents, Giving

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there’s a limit to how much they can shield children from.

Children, Best, Experience

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

Love, Happiness, Art

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

Father, Reality, Belief

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel… all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.

Travel, Science, Great

She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build

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

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No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

important, understanding

And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

comfort, healing, pain, scared, sleep