Christiane M. > Christiane's Quotes

“Reading a book four times in one day is perfectly normal behavior.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It doesn't look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Their story is only just beginning. And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“She realised that she hadn’t tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Why want another universe if this one has dogs?”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“She might not have felt everything she had felt in those lives, but she had the capability. She might have missed those particular opportunities that led her to become an Olympic swimmer, or traveller, or a vineyard owner, or a rock star, or a planet-saving glaciologist, or a Cambridge graduate, or a mother, or million other things, but she was still in in some way all of those people. They were all her. She could of been all those amazing people, and that wasn't depressing, as she had thought. Not at all. It was inspiring. Because now she saw the kinds of things she could do when she put herself to work.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It turned out to be near impossible to stand in a library and not want to pull things from the shelves.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“She didn’t want to die. And she didn’t want to live any other life than the one that was hers. The one that could be a messy struggle, but it was her messy struggle. A beautiful messy struggle.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“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.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“She has always thought herself foolish for loving so much and so easily. Yet now it is her strength.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“If I look like a monster,’ he says roughly, ‘then no one will be surprised when I do monstrous things.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“You are not a monster, Liska Radost. You are sunlight, and you breathe life into everything you touch.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“Liska realizes, in that moment, that she has misjudged herself. Through the Leszy’s eyes, she has seen something in herself that she could have never believed otherwise: strength, tenacity, kindness. In his eyes, she is ever-changing, different with every dawn but no less sincere. She is not defined by her magic, for better or for worse. She does not need to prove herself to him or to anyone else. She is simply… enough. She has always been enough. It is this discovery, more than anything, that brings Liska to life.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“In nature, everything balances itself. There can be no winter without summer, no shadow without the sun. You are my soul, Liska Radost. I lived seven hundred years to find you.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“if the world has not prepared a place for you, you must take up a hammer and chisel and carve one out for yourself.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“But nothing is ever equal with humans, really—we give and we take, the scales ever tipping. That’s just the way of it. I am what he has, and he is what I have—there’s no point keeping score.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“Grief is a bit like a chronic ache, I think—it’s always there, but sometimes you notice it more and sometimes less, and sometimes it’s unbearable and sometimes you think it might be gone for good.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still