Author of quotes: Matt Haig

Librarians know a lot. They guide us to the right book. To true worlds. They know the best places. They are like animated search engines.

In my opinion, being a teacher is the best destiny in life. Teaching children means feeling like a keeper of time and protecting the happy future of the world, because you influence the minds of those who have to create this future.

Whenever I see someone - especially someone you don't expect at all - reading a book, I feel like the world is a little safer.

The only way to stay free is not to get attached to anyone.

Here it is, simple, unalloyed happiness: to make the person to whom you are not indifferent laugh.

That's why you become a teacher. For the sake of a glimpse of hope where it seemed there was none and could not be.

It is worth making a wrong decision in the present, and it will relentlessly haunt you in the future. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 laid the groundwork for Hitler to come to power in 1933. For every moment we live in the present, we pay in the future. One single wrong step, and you can go astray forever. Everything you do stays with you. And comes back to you. Certainly.

My soul was seized by both the strongest fear and all-consuming love, and I realized that fear and love are one and the same feeling.

For many decades, I sincerely sympathized with those who complained that they felt like a deep old man, but only now I realized that everyone can feel like an old man. To do this, it is enough to become a teacher.

If you love someone very much, then, they say, a single kiss can stop a sparrow in flight.

I went to the BBC and Guardian websites. I read a couple of articles about the discord in US-China relations. Commentators unanimously predicted an imminent apocalypse. That's when the thought of being four hundred and thirty-nine is a consolation. You begin to understand what the main lesson of history is: people are not able to learn from history. The twenty-first century has every chance of turning into a crappy version of the twentieth, but what can you do? The minds of people all over the world are filled to capacity with the most controversial utopias. And this is the right path to trouble, alas, too familiar to me. Empathy for others is becoming increasingly rare, but this is not new. Peaceful life is as fragile as a porcelain trinket, and it has always been that way.

It is easy for a boy to get involved in trouble, but then it carries you further, to a serious trouble, which is almost impossible to avoid.

- And I happened. - I told the truth. - It's creepy. You definitely won't like it. Someone else's death seems to take over you. And drives you crazy. You carry the deceased with you all your life, until the very end ...

- Over time, everything decreases in size. Computers, phones, apples, knives, souls.