The Midnight Library Quotes

“I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”

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

“I don’t think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.”

″‘Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.‘”

“According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.”

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things.”

“Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.”

“The only way to learn is to live.”

“But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It’s exciting.”

“It’s never too late to pursue a dream.”

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it.”

“Most gossip is envy in disguise.”

“Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.”

“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices.”

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.”

“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”