How to Stop Time

by Matt Haig

Music doesn’t get in. Music is already in. 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.

I have only been alive for four hundred and thirty-nine years, which is of course nowhere near long enough to understand the minimal facial expressions of the average teenage boy.

The noise of car engines, of cinema scores, of radio broadcasts, the sound of humans overreaching themselves.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.”’

You have to keep walking forwards. But you don’t always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.