Echo Boy Quotes

“There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“But if everyone was made to look perfect, then no one would be special because being special meant being different, by offering something that wasn't on offer elsewhere.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“The price of imagination is pain.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“The hardest bit about losing people you loved wasn`t thinking about the memories you had, the ones that had already been made. No. The hardest bit was the stuff that should have been, but had now been denied.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“We were made from stardust, like everything in the universe, and we - each of us - carried a power inside us. A power that couldn't be destroyed anymore than the universe could be destroyed.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“Open your mind, this is only a song,
But the way to be happy is to admit you were wrong.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“Maybe once you had known fear and love and beauty, you could never unknow them.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“A book is a map .... There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. ... The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“You couldn't be a little bit human in the same way you couldn't be a little bit in love. It was all or nothing. A drop was an ocean. And maybe being human wasn't even down to DNA in the end. Maybe it was about the ability to love, when you knew love was irrational. Yeah, maybe being human was to make no sense.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“Memories were just future sadness stored away”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“And when a joke is powerful enough, you don't laugh, you scream. Yes, when the mask slips you scream out loud for all the terror in the world, and I screamed then.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Matt Haig, Echo Boy