The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

‘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.’

sometimes the only way to learn is to live.’

But the sex turned out to be a disappointment. A Camus quote came to her, right in the middle of it.

BYE LMFAO wtf am i reading (but icl Camus my absolute goat so valid...but if a guy has got u thinking abt a nihilist during sex ts must be atrocious)

There is no rejection, there is only redirection. You know, I’ve been thinking a lot. About the cosmos. I’ve been tuning in. And the cosmos has been telling me I need to get my shit together. It’s balance, man. What we had was too intense and our lives are too intense and it’s like Darwin’s third law of motion. About an action leading to a reaction. Something had to give.

LMAO THIS BOOK IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING ELSE but at least i'm laughing cuz what is this man holy embarrassment