The Midnight Train Quotes

“The joy of selling books. The joy of joining the right book to the right reader.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train: A Novel

“The promises you make when you're young are the easiest to break”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train: A Novel

“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in a book, and just stay on that page until the end of time.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train: A Novel

“The forwardness of life was a problem, thought the Ghost. If days could be scattered all over, so on Monday you were forty and on Tuesday you were nine and on Wednesday you were eighty-one, that would be more helpful. You would know the fleeting nature of things, realize how many versions of ourselves a lifetime contained. It would make life’s beauty so abundantly clear. The way a sunset was so beguiling because it tells us that every day eventually sinks into night.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train: A Novel

“And as the Ghost watched his own hurt, he understood himself in a way he’d never quite managed in life. He saw how much he’d been shaped and conducted by his youth. The striving for a success he thought he needed to justify his existence. And the struggle with a love he didn’t think he deserved.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train: A Novel

“I don't know where the past hides, but I will meet you there.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train: A Novel

“Dougie, meanwhile, was smiling a rare smile. Wilbur hadn’t caught that smile at the time but his ghost did now. It was an interesting character trait: that the closest Dougie ever got to contentment was when the trouble inside his head was aligned with the trouble he caused outside it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train: A Novel