The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

ceaseless mind-cramp,

too uncomfortable to bear

self-pity.

when life still had possibility.

life was a cacophony of nonsense.

went nowhere at all.

She wasn’t made for this life.

Every move had been a mistake,

every decision a ...

retreat from who she’...

Swi...

Musi...

Philos...

Sp...

Trave...

Glaciol...

H...

L...

‘cat o...

too much loss all together

‘one-hour-a-week pian...

‘human capable of conv...

finished the wine.

alcohol is a depressent

called her brother and left a voicemail

reached out to her brother

There’s nothing you could have done.

suicide message

she didn’t want to reach tomorrow.

suicide

the world has retreated from me,

should retreat from the world.

I have had this feeling

I make life worse for people.

have nothing to give.

her father died, when Mrs Elm gently broke the news

opening

Am I dead?

‘Not exactly,’

Every book

another life you could have lived.

‘You don’t go to death. Death comes to you.’

being incomplete in just about every sense.

inadequacy

possibilities she had squandered.

‘It is time, my dear, to begin.’

Alice in Wonderland

If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story.

Tissues are like lives. There are always more.’

‘Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently.

Nora Seed.

The Book of Regrets.’

regret not doing Geology at University instead of Philosophy.’

happier person.’

gu...

not finishing the novel I started

being a better sister.’

scared of becoming her mother.

common fear

Bertrand Russell