A Boy Called Christmas

by Matt Haig

“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet…But

To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole, and you feel you are falling down it and will never

land. People you love make the world real and solid, and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid anymore.

easiest way to make other people happy is to be happy yourself, or at least to act as if you are.

“Sometimes,” she said, her eyes shining, “people look up to people not

for who they have been, but for what they could become. For what they know they could be. They see in you something special.”