Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 12 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig. I hope you enjoy reading them.
The Midnight Library Quotes
Between life and death there is a library. And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices … Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
A person was like a city. You couldn’t let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don’t like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
The art of swimming was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.
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Never underestimate the big importance of small things. You must always remember that.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise. Keep your head down. Keep your stamina. Keep swimming.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. […] But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.
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Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty.
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Human beings when there’s enough of them together acting in total unison become something else.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil – rich, fertile soil. She wasn’t a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn’t run away from herself. She’d have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.
from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig