مَريم Mariam

“It seems impossible to live without hurting people.'

'That's because it is.'

'So why live at all?'

'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,’ she said, realising something for the first time. ‘But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. In one life, I might be married. In another, I might be working in a shop. I might have said yes to this cute guy who asked me out for a coffee. In another I might be researching glaciers in the Arctic Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library