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One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.
– Matt Haig

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  2. The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered. – Matt Haig
  3. Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. – Virginia Woolf
  4. I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on. – Fidel Castro
  5. Sometimes we are more attached to the pain than the pain is attached to us. – Luigina Sgarro
  6. When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. – Tennessee Williams
  7. There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. – Matt Haig
  8. Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on. – Matt Haig
  9. Forcing yourself to see the world through love’s gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us. – Matt Haig
  10. The way out is never through yourself. – Matt Haig
  11. I wanted to be dead. No. That’s not quite right. I didn’t want to be dead, I just didn’t want to be alive. – Matt Haig
  12. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction. – Matt Haig
  13. No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you. – Matt Haig
  14. ILikeThe WayThat when youTiltPoemsOn their sideTheyLook likeMiniatureCities FromA long wayAway. SkyscrapersMade outOfWords. – Matt Haig
  15. Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you. – Matt Haig
  16. Blood doesn’t satisfy cravings. It magnifies them. – Matt Haig
  17. Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it. – Matt Haig
  18. I couldn’t believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes. – Matt Haig
  19. Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are. – Matt Haig
  20. There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. – Matt Haig
  21. One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood – Tim Flannery
  22. Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it’s the key to victory over fear and it’s cousin, depression. – Robert McKee
  23. It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic. – SE Hinton
  24. Can a person really love someone so deeply after only a week? Hello? Cliche much for insta-love? – Christy Pastore
  25. That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all. – Nick Hornby
  26. That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all – Nick Hornby
  27. It’s so much more than a child’s story. – Matt Chandler on LIFE Today. – Matt Chandler
  28. You are not alone if you are lonely,When you feel afraid, you’re not the only. – Matt Maher
  29. I’d rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes. – Mark Fiore
  30. I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage. – Julie Metz
  31. Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I’m lonely. – Lesley Howarth
  32. It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely you will make it. – Elizabeth Berrien
  33. Traveling can get kind of lonely sometimes, er-¦ no, not traveling. What is the word? Life. Life can get kind of lonely. – John Mulaney
  34. I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young. – Caroline Yawn
  35. Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read? – Grace Metalious
  36. And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night. – Brian Moore
  37. Where do you go when you’re lonely?Where do you go when you’re blue?Where do you go when you’re lonely?I’ll follow youWhen the stars go blue. – Ryan Adams
  38. The trouble is not really in being alone, it’s being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don’t you think? – Christine Feehan
  39. i feel lonely, it never goes away;the crowd makes me feel lonely – anth
  40. But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him. – Mary Balogh

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