{"author":"Matt Haig","author_id":"Matt+Haig","total_quotes":66,"quotes":[{"text":"Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["children","best","experience "],"id":856,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... All those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["travel","science","great "],"id":5140,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["life","friends","alone "],"id":16169,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["crime","nudity"],"id":31414,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"We are all echoes of each other. We are all humans and feel both despair and happiness. Our similarities, as a species, are staggering. And our mental fragility is directly tied up with our humanity. We have nothing to be ashamed of in being human, any more than a tree should be ashamed of having branches. Let’s accept our own nature. Let’s be kind to ourselves and to each other. Let’s never add to the pain by blaming ourselves. We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a planet. We are all part of that. All freaks. All wonderful.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["depression"],"id":33703,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of it in a way they do not kill themselves with any other illness. Yet people still don’t really think depression really is that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["anxiety","depression","insensitivity"],"id":47963,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same spot they were in over a decade ago, when they first met. Surely the reality is that connections between people aren't permanent, but fleeting and random, like a solar eclipse or clouds meeting in the sky. They exist in a constantly moving universe full of constantly moving objects.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["created-family","familial-love","family","family-relationships","family-ties","love","relationships"],"id":50512,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["books","any","fences "],"id":53024,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”“Pretty much.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["hurt","love"],"id":57371,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"},{"text":"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.","author":"Matt Haig","tags":["humans"],"id":92724,"author_id":"Matt+Haig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}