Matthew

“Turtles don’t have nations. Or flags. Or strategic nuclear weapons. They don’t have terrorism or referendums or trade wars with China. They don’t have Spotify playlists for their workouts. They don’t have books on the decline and fall of turtle empires. They don’t have internet shopping or self-service checkouts. Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn’t progress. We stay the same glorified chimpanzees, just with ever bigger weapons. We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mass of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Now, God isn’t something I believe in—it’s something I feel all of us soaking in.”
― Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God

“I know it sounds strange, but I look back on my depression fondly. So much anxiety in my life comes from not knowing what to do or how to behave, but everyone knows how to be sad.”
― Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God

“Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time