The Midnight Library

Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead’.

‘Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.’

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

Sylvia Plath

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently.

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.

The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil – rich, fertile soil.

‘Not a massive demand for philosophers in Bedford, if I’m honest,

‘Well, far be it from me to say, but there is more to this world than swimming really fast. There are many different possible lives ahead of you.

It reminded her that everyone was better off without her. You get near a black hole and the gravitational pull drags you into its bleak, dark reality.

‘Oh, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.’
She was a waterfall of apologies. She was drowning in herself.