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"We like stories because time moves us forward, when what we want to do is move sideways. We want to live every possible life, not just ours. Stories are how we can window shop other possible lives without committing to them."
— Matt Haig
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"If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing."
— Matt Haig, The Humans.
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"Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport."
— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive (via kitcatbookmad)
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"And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself."
— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive (via victoriousvocabulary)
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