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“The girl put her hand in Nora's. It felt so small and warm and it made her feel sad, the way it relaxed into her, as natural as a pearl in a shell.”

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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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“Nora's smile was still there but she felt tears behind her eyes. This seemed a good life. A family of her own. A daughter to go on camping holidays with.”

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“Either way, if she was going to bluff it in this life, she was probably going to have to read some more philosophy.”

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“She felt her face and it was creased from where she had been lying, and her hair — which was longer in this life — felt dirty and bedraggled. She tried to make herself look as presentable as it was possible to look in the two seconds before the arrival of a man she simultaneously slept with every night and also hadn't ever slept with. Schrödinger's husband, so to speak. And then, suddenly, there he was.”

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“Ash's gangly handsome boyishness had only been modestly dented by fatherhood.”

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“He was smiling and holding two cups of coffee, one of which was for Nora. She wondered how many coffees they had shared together, since the first.”

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“I'm just delirious from sleeping on the floor.”

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“Nora scanned the room, absorbing every new piece of information. Every cuddly toy and book and plug socket, as if they were all part of the jigsaw of her life.”

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“She was on a sabbatical in order to write a book about Henry David Thoreau and his relevance for the modern-day environmentalist movement.”

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“This seemed pretty good. Almost annoyingly good.”

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“Plato yawned indifference.”

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