The Life Impossible

by Matt Haig

I have never believed in magic, and I still don’t. But sometimes what looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet.

You should be able to feel something. I mean, that’s the most basic and essential form of existence, isn’t it? Feeling. And to live without feeling, then what was that?

Christina Papadakis had been, for a very short while, a music teacher. We had worked at the same school together just before I got back with Karl.

As you get older, patterns become harder to break. And you don’t want them to break. My

There are two kinds of ghosts that torment you when a young person dies. The ghost of who they were, and the ghosts of who they could have been.

He had never been much of a conversationalist, and being dead had done very little to improve the situation.

The one he drew me for Mother’s Day. We’d had it in a frame for years and I’d wanted to

They are the two essential qualities, Grace. They are what’s needed. Mental fortitude and emotional sympathy. Let me tell you something about kindness. I was raised by my grandmother here in the village of Santa Agnès de Corona. She was an artist. But she was kind to everyone. Before

You see, if you want to visit a new world, you don’t need a spacecraft. All you need to do is change your mind.

to a gorgeous white cubic church. ‘Mira, Grace. We are here.

posters. ‘Good times,’ he said, as we waited for

The difference between a gift and a curse was sometimes just a question of perspective.