Jess

“I have never believed in magic, and I still don’t. But sometimes what looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“When you have a child, the world slips away for a while. You become your own satellite planet and forget that other things exist unless you make an effort to look.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“He died before he became a teenager, let alone and adult, so it is hard to say who he would have turned out to be. There are two kinds of ghosts that torment you when a young person dies. The ghost of who they were, and the ghosts of who they could have been.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“Maybe that’s the truly ridiculous thing, the way we don’t even blink at the sheer improbability of our lives here on this rock spinning through space. The way we exist out of nothing, the way the whole universe exists out of nothing, and here we are, the impossible something that made existence out of the void. Impossible life. A fluke to be cherished.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible