The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

‘I don’t think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.’

Her fear of life.

‘Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.’

The difference between wanting and lacking.

There is no rejection, there is only redirection.

Neat quote

She realised that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

Very profound thought

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.

Wonderful