The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every

studying Aristotle as a first-year Philosophy student. And being a bit depressed by his idea that excellence was never an accident. That excellent outcomes were the result of ‘the wise choice of many alternatives’.

Dan had been pretty rude to the waiter, and Nora had overcompensated with excessive smiles. It was one of life’s rules – Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff – and Dan had failed at that one, and many of the others.

Let’s occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

It was interesting, she mused to herself, how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.