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A review by reggiereading
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
i honestly didn't really like this book at the start, i found it boring and slow. but by the second half, it picks up ! (seriously, it takes a while at least for me) as always, here are some quotes (context removed)!
"Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them."
"In another life Nora was a sea of emotion. She felt everything deeply and directly. Every joy and every sorrow. A single moment could contain both intense pleasure and intense pain, as if both were dependent on each other, like a pendulum in motion."
""I've forgotten who you are." "Don't worry," she said. "So have I.""
"It was nothing but trees and traffic and mediocre architecture, but it was everything. It was life."
"It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living."
"It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy."
"We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite."
"Because she had touched the vastness of life and within that vastness she had seen the possibility not only of what she could do, but also feel."
"She would accept the darkness of life in a way she never had, not as failure but as part of a totality, as something that threw other things into relief, into growth, into being. The ash in the soil."
"And where there was uncertainty there was also possibility"
i'll be honest, quite a bit of this book felt like philosophical drivel trying to be deep (it succeeded, but whatever). it was a good light read, i can see it putting me into a slump now though😭
"Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them."
"In another life Nora was a sea of emotion. She felt everything deeply and directly. Every joy and every sorrow. A single moment could contain both intense pleasure and intense pain, as if both were dependent on each other, like a pendulum in motion."
""I've forgotten who you are." "Don't worry," she said. "So have I.""
"It was nothing but trees and traffic and mediocre architecture, but it was everything. It was life."
"It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living."
"It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy."
"We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite."
"Because she had touched the vastness of life and within that vastness she had seen the possibility not only of what she could do, but also feel."
"She would accept the darkness of life in a way she never had, not as failure but as part of a totality, as something that threw other things into relief, into growth, into being. The ash in the soil."
"And where there was uncertainty there was also possibility"
i'll be honest, quite a bit of this book felt like philosophical drivel trying to be deep (it succeeded, but whatever). it was a good light read, i can see it putting me into a slump now though😭