The Dead Fathers Club Quotes

“I don't know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone in the world is a little bit to blame for everything.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club

“(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club

“Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me when he crashed. It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me me and it wasnt there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn't know if that was enough.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club

“You always have a choice. Life is full of choices”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club: A Novel

“Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club

“Mum said Oh God oh please God oh God oh please please oh God and God said nothing.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club

“... there comes a time when you have to put the dead to rest, Philip. When you have to trust the living instead.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club

“when you write with a pen it is like writing with a part of yourself like it is another finger.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club: A Novel

“if you speak to yourself people think you are mad but if you write the same things they think you are clever.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club: A Novel

“... killing is not a stone you throw away, it is a boomerang that comes back and gets you on the head.”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club