How to Stop Time

by Matt Haig

That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

life is like that. There’s no need to fear change, or necessarily welcome it, not when you don’t have anything to lose. Change is just what life is. It is the only constant I know.

Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up.

‘Are you someone who watches life, or someone who participates?’

you can never close the past. The most you can do with it is accept it. And that is the point I want to reach.

Lady Greensleeves was the standard insult du jour for promiscuous women. Her sleeves were green because of all that outdoor sex she was supposedly having.

But the trouble with life was that it had to be lived consecutively.

Sometimes the beast only needs to roar.’

you cannot know the future. You look at the news and it looks terrifying. But you can never be sure. That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.

the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.