A Boy Called Christmas

by Matt Haig

if you are one of those people who believe that some things are impossible, you should put this book down right away. It is most certainly not for you. Because this book is full of impossible things.

If you believe in something, you don’t need to see it.

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

The whole world—or the world I come from, the world of the humans—is full of bad things. There’s misery and greed and sadness and hunger and unkindness all over the place. There are many, many children who never get any presents, and who are lucky to get anything more than just a few spoonfuls of mushroom soup for dinner. They have no toys to play with and they will go to bed hungry. Children who don’t have parents. Children who have to live with horrible people like my aunt Carlotta. In a world like that, it’s very easy to be bad. So when someone is good, or kind, it’s a magic in itself. It gives people hope. And hope is the most wonderful thing there is.”

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.