The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

‘So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren’t based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .’ She searched for the appropriate term and found it. ‘A load of bullshit.’

And death is the opposite of possibility.

‘Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.’

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

‘I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.