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All Highlights
All Highlights
“There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# honesty # intimacy # anxiety # vulnerability # growth
“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilization has become a little safer.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# reading # growth # character
“Maybe someday soon we can try another park bench. I don’t know. I can’t know.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# insignificance # perspective # growth # friendship
“Days rise up before me like great waves, threatening to drown me if I can’t surmount them. So I kick until my legs are heavy and my lungs burn from the effort, and each night, somehow, I crest the wave, sliding down the other side of it into a meagre sleep, only to wake the next morning to the sight of another wave gathering on the horizon.”
—Hazel Hayes, Better by Far. Highlighted
# grief # liminal-space # depression
“But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# memory # self-concept # self-experiments
“It is a popular modern idea. That the inner us is something different to the outer us. That there is an authentic realer and better and richer version of ourselves which we can only tap into by buying a solution. This idea that we are separate from our nature, as separate as a bottle of Dior perform is from the plants of a forest.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# honesty # insignificance # habits # self-concept
“The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# self-concept # growth # learning # perspective # resentment # conservatism # politics
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# insignificance # perspective # self-concept
“She goes quiet for a little while. Remembers something. ‘“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.”’ ‘Is that . . .?’ ‘Montaigne himself.””
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# growth # honesty # perspective
“Unsatisfied desire allows us to imagine we have found the one who will make us whole, because we haven’t yet tested the fit. The not yet relationship becomes strangely comfortable, at least compared to the risk of finding out your beloved’s half-self won’t conform to your own.”
—Lisa A. Phillips, Unrequited. Highlighted
# limerence # unrequited-love
“Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. —David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, “Time””
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# liminal-space # perspective # growth
“I have seen countless twentysomethings spend too many years living without perspective. What is worse are the tears shed by thirtysomethings and fortysomethings because they are now paying a steep price...”
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# twenties # growth # age # perspective

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