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“The sight made her feel happy, somehow. Made her feel like her eleven-year-old self would have been proud. She was, it seemed, having an adventure.”

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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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“She tried to translate the smile, to understand the kind of relationship they had.”

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“Conversation was tempting, but dangerous.”

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“We have been meandering around the archipelago since Sunday. Yeah, Sunday. That's when we left Longyearbyen.' Nora made a face as if to say she knew all this. Sunday seems for ever away.”

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“She had no idea what he was talking about, but feared the twinkle in his eye.”

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“You kill it. Before it kills you.”

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“I truly hope,' said Ingrid, laughing raspily, 'you don't get eaten. I would miss you. So long as you aren't menstruating, you should be okay.' 'Jesus. What?' 'They can smell the blood from a mile away.”

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“In most lives, she would have at least been physically comfortable. And yet, she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried.”

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“Although she had only been left alone for an hour at this point, she had never experienced this level of solitude before, amid such unpopulated nature.”

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“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn't been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”

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