How To Stop Time: A Novel

by Matt Haig

Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.

Places don’t matter to people any more. Places aren’t the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.

‘Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it’ –

‘“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”’