“It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture...” — Matt Haig Quote

“It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you can study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.”

“It seems impossible to live without hurting people.'”

“Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.”

“I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go.”

“Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.”

“The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.”

“Broken bones and torn muscles get healed, and so does the shattered soul. Let no failure halt you ever.”

“I'm always trying to show versatility. I'm juggling, and I'm flipping fire, and I'm chewing gum and rhyming at the same time... on a unicycle, while playing the drums.”

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”

“Decide when you want to leave work and you’ll know how many hours you have. Slot in what you need to get done by priority. Cal calls this “fixed schedule productivity.” You need boundaries if you want work–life balance. This forces you to be efficient. By setting a deadline of six p.m. and then scheduling tasks, you can get control over that hurricane of duties, and you can be realistic instead of shocked by what is never going to happen.”

“The early years were so packed with everything that one year seemed like like a very long time, as of course it was. It is only when the years begin to repeat themselves that they seem to be gone almost instantly.”