The Midnight Train Quotes

“Books,’ she once said, ‘are mirrors for the soul. So if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Music had a way of threading through decades like nothing else. A song”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if the lives he read about intertwined with his own, like threads in an ever-expanding rope. Stories made him strong.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“He felt whole with her, like a question that had found its answer.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

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

“That was his skill. Like a travel agent of the imagination.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“I think everyone you meet you end up losing in some way, but if you love someone they don’t really leave. Obviously they do. But not entirely. They live in your
mind. You keep them alive. You can lose everything but you can’t lose love.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Sometimes everything you need isn’t so far from where you start.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“He had made their love into a blanket and burrowed deep under it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“There were days in life that rolled by and were never really thought of again. And then there were days that were so beloved or important that they contained inside them everything that came after. Russian doll days, that were always inside the expanding future.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“He tapped a finger just under his right eye. “Seeing. Thing is”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“just hate that when you lose someone when you’re young you’re going to have to spend more time missing them than with them.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“I was lucky I knew her well. And the way I see it”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“It was”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Well, you stand in front of a Leonardo from, I don’t know, 1498, and it’s powerful because the painting is as it was then. The emotions and feelings of it are fresh. It hasn’t gone off. It is 1498 right there in front of you. The world grows old around art. But the art is still as powerful and fresh as it always was…if that makes any sense…” The”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“The incredibly annoying thing about being dead was that you got all your priorities in order, just when it was too late to do anything about them.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“haberdasher”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“That was the whole trouble with life. It gave you every day in succession, so that every miracle to be cherished became a norm to be ignored.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“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, realise 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

“He knew”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“The Ghost turned to the Dreamer. “Listen”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Slow and steady”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

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

“It is ironic,” he told him”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“at the end you get to say So that was who I was. That’s what you linger on. That’s where the stations are. Together they map who you are.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“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

“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

“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

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

“He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if the lives he read about intertwined with his own”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train