To Be A Cat

by Matt Haig

‘If people pick on you, they see something inside you that they are scared of. Something special, which they might not have, which shines out of you like a jewel.’

opportunities are like cat flaps. They don’t stay open for ever

‘No one can make you feel bad about yourself without your consent.’

You have to accept everything in your life, all the things you can’t change.

Life wasn’t ever one ingredient. It was several. And some flavours were bad and some were good, but love was the strongest of all. If you were loved, you had everything.

that’s what life is like sometimes. It has bits of sadness in it, splinters in the happiness.