Mar’s Reviews > The Midnight Library > Status Update

‘We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it.’ “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

“… it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other.”

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fails. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it.”

“As if there was a very thin path to a happy life and it was the path he had decided for her. As if her own agency in her own life was automatically wrong.”

Loving the short chapters but I’m unsure about the vibe, it’s kind of a downer :/

“Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don’t even try to change.”