The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse.

I AM ...

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

‘Life begins,’ Sartre once wrote, ‘on the other side of despair.’

‘A Thing I Have Learned (Written By A Nobody Who Has Been Everybody)’.

Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.

We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.

how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

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

Even when situations and chemistries didn’t change, perspectives could.

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