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“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“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

“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Everything is going to be all right. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let's not worry.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“I write because you exist.”
― Michael Faudet

“A mind possessed by unmade books.”
― Michael Faudet

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”
― Michael Faudet

“There is no perfect ending to a relationship. No magic formula. Just a silent scream as they rip your fucking heart out.”
― Michael Faudet, Bitter Sweet Love

“I have cried an ocean for you but still your ship refuses to sail.”
― Michael Faudet, Bitter Sweet Love

“Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity.”
― Michael Faudet, Bitter Sweet Love

“A mind possessed
by unmade books,
unwritten lines
on empty hooks.”
― Michael Faudet

“She loved to spend rainy afternoons lost in thought, her hand daydreaming beneath the fabric of her floral panties.”
― Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things

“She was the kind of girl
who loved to stretch out
under the sheets,
eating chocolate,
reading books
and fucking on
rainy afternoons.”
― Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things

“I live in a peculiar world," she said, "in a place where reality ends and a fiction begins. Maybe that's why I love you.”
― Michael Faudet, Bitter Sweet Love

“I never understood desire until i felt your hands around my throat.”
― Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things

“Summer Storm

She was wild, unpredictable, beautiful, and dangerous. Impossible to resist. A summer storm in a bikini.”
― Michael Faudet, Bitter Sweet Love

“My heart has become a broken compass. Every time I try to leave you, I always find myself running back into your arms.”
― Michael Faudet, Bitter Sweet Love

“Another day spent slipping away from you.”
― Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things

“Nobody knows your heart better than you. Trust your instincts. Never let anyone cast a shadow over your sunshine.”
― Michael Faudet, Smoke & Mirrors

“She had a mind like a box of fireworks and hands that played recklessly with matches.”
― Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things