Matt Haig

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently.

The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we aren’t able to see it

death only happens to people who have been living.

At its worst you find yourself wishing, desperately, for any other affliction, any physical pain, because the mind is infinite, and its torments – when they happen – can be equally infinite.

depression is one of the deadliest diseases on the planet. It kills more people than most other forms of violence – warfare, terrorism, domestic abuse, assault, gun crime – put together.

depression is one of the deadliest diseases on the planet. It kills more people than most other forms of violence – warfare, terrorism, domestic abuse, assault, gun crime – put together.

No, not in the way you mean. No, I didn’t. But as you get older, Anton, you realise that you never get away with things. The human mind has its own. . . prisons. You don’t have a choice over everything in life.’

I look at her. She has the kind of face that makes you want to speak, to tell things to. It is a dangerous face

I force a smile and don’t say anything because the only thing I have in my head is that the sight of her face comforts me and scares me all at once