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“As she sang, she felt alive.”

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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 did look tired but she supposed that was just a result of living on tour. It was a glamorous kind of tired. Like Billie Eilish's cool aunt.”

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“She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers. A woman sat next to her. This woman wasn't in the hand, but she exuded importance.”

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“She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers. A woman sat next to her. This woman wasn't in the band, but she exuded importance.”

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“Distant skyscrapers with a few tiny squares of light against a humid backdrop of dark sky and darker clouds. A shadowy army of trees lined the sides and middle of the highway, splitting the traffic into two directions.”

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“Ryan Bailey. As in the Ryan Bailey. As in the Ryan Bailey of her fantasies, where they talked about Plato and Heidegger through a veil of steam in his West Hollywood hot tub.”

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“Nora tried to act as if every sentence he said wasn't an animal running into the road.”

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“We had all kinds of great. But you were right to finish it. You did the right thing, in the cosmic order of things. There is no rejection, there is only redirection. You know, I've been thinking a lot. About the cosmos. I've been tuning in. And the cosmos has been telling me I need to get my shit together. It's balance, man. What we had was too intense and our lives are too intense and it's like Darwin's third law of motion. About an action leading to a reaction. Something had to give. And you were the one who saw that and now we are just particles floating in the universe that may reconnect one day at the Chateau Marmont...”

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“He burped. It was strange how shocking it was to realise that Ryan Bailey was a human being in a human body that generated gas.”

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