Chronically Bookish Steph

“He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if the lives he read about intertwined with his own, like threads in an ever-expanding rope. Stories made him strong.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“There were days in life that rolled by and were never really thought of again. And then there were days that were so beloved or important that they contained inside them everything that came after. Russian doll days, that were always inside the expanding future.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Easier to despise than understand. Easier to mock than empathise.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“Books,’ she once said, ‘are mirrors for the soul. So if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train