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“The sky was full of heavy soot-grey clouds, as if providing a celestial echo of Nora's mind, as she wandered around Bedford in search of a reason to exist. The town was a conveyor belt of despair.”

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The Midnight Library

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Matt Haig is a British novelist born in 1975. His works are known for their humor and profound emotional insight, enjoying great popularity among readers. Haig's writing spans a variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and realism. more

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“Her despair growing like a weight she couldn't carry.”

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“I'm having a pretty shit time too, if we're doing the Misery Olympics.”

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“Bands don't last. We'd have been a meteor shower. Over before we started. Meteor showers are fucking beautiful.”

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“I don't think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.”

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“This hurt. The words took the air out of her. 'And I think your problem,' she retaliated, voice trembling, 'is blaming others for your shitty life.”

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“Well, don't hang about. Tick-tock-tick-tock.' 'I'm thirty-five.' She wished Izzy was here. Izzy never put up with any of this kind of shit. 'And I'm not sure I want—”

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“Dan had wanted kids. Nora didn't know. She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.”

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“Nora was in free fall and she had no one to talk to.”

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“Thoreau had been her favourite philosopher to study. But who seriously goes confidently in the direction of their dreams? Well, apart from Thoreau. He'd gone and lived in the woods, with no contact from the outside world, to just sit there and write and chop wood and fish. But life was probably simpler two centuries ago in Concord, Massachusetts, than modern life in Bedford, Bedfordshire. Or maybe it wasn't Maybe she was just really crap at it. At life.”

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