BEST QUOTES FROM THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY BY MATT HAIG

•  According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal

• This isn’t a non-profit organisation. Though I have to say it is rapidly becoming one.

• She realised that’s what she was. A black hole. A dying star, collapsing in on itself

• The silence was louder than noise.

• The good stuff makes it worthwhile

• Why are you just standing in the middle of the room? Are you getting ready for bed or are you doing some kind of standing meditation?

• Fish get depressed when they have a lack of stimulation. A lack of everything. When they are just there, floating in a tank that resembles nothing at all.

• Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don’t even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

• Most gossip is envy in disguise

• It can drive you insane, thinking of all the other lives we don’t live

• Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.

• ‘I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.’

• He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became

• Human beings were wired to know only a hundred and fifty people, as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities

• The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning. You heard something and you had to pay attention.

• In the face of death, life seemed more attractive

• To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.

• On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.

• If you are in a cathedral, you are quiet because you are in a cathedral, not because other people are there. It’s the same with a library

'It seems impossible to live without hurting people.’
‘That’s because it is.'

• Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting

• ‘What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees?

• Excellence was never an accident

• There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

• Good people were rare

• It was one of life’s rules – Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff

• It was as though she had reached some state of acceptance about life – that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn’t only be bad experiences

• ‘Yes. He cuts people!’ For a brief moment she forgot Ash was a surgeon and wondered if she was in the house of a serial killer

• She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality

The sky grows dark

The black over blue
Yet the stars still dare
To shine for you

• We don’t have to play every game to know what winning feels like

• We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite.

‘I won’t if you won’t,’ she said.
‘Trust me, I’m not going anywhere.’

• It was interesting how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

• It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from.

‘Well, that’s the beauty, isn’t it?
You just never know how it ends.’

I liked reading this book. It started off so slowly like I almost thought of not reading it. I mean the first 50 pages are soo boring. But after that it gets interesting. Very interesting. It's like a roller coaster that goes up and comes down. Thus the part of going up is boring but when it comes down its just the best feeling. The book gives hope. Read it.

Thank you so much for reading. I also write quotes from other books too. You can check them out. And for some crazy reason, a post from October is being seen by too many people. That Microsoft's chatbot being stupid one. Here is the link to it. Why Microsoft Edge's ChatBot is stupid. It has like 18 views in total and 17 of them came this month. And to add to that 12 views came in a day. That is too much. I am so happy cause I'm not known at all on blogger. It's crazy and just unbelievable.

Thats all for now. Ciao;)