The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon

There is no rejection, there is only redirection.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

most of what we’d feel in any life is still available.

Sometimes regrets aren’t based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .’ She searched for the appropriate term and found it. ‘A load of bullshit.’

‘True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.’ – Socrates

‘You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.’

The two-way twit-twoo of tawny owls.

sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.’

Never underestimate the big importance of small things,

‘But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,’ he said, wisely. ‘You’re quoting Camus.’