The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

All good things are wild

and free.

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

‘You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.’

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”’

‘When you have worries about things you don’t know about, like the future, it’s a very good idea to remind yourself of things you do know.’

The sky grows dark The black over blue Yet the stars still dare To shine for you