Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

BATB score: 10/10 🤍

relatable in every way; thank you #MattHaig for writing this book to shed light on depression as an illness and as common brain mishap

Best to: beautifully personal and eloquently elaborative of someone going through depression, comprising of inner demons and anxiety that makes living difficult

Best for: everyone should read this regardless of whether you are a sufferer, a survivor of, or merely a fellow friend of anyone going through depression #BeAnAlly

Best as: the world around us is too much and too fast that our neurons are unable to cope - raise your hand if you can relate 🙋‍♀️

Best quotes: “The only thing that didn’t worry me was the thing that probably should have: worry itself.”

"Depression is a dark cloud passing across the sky, but you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud."

"Live. Love. Let go."

"Tears were a kind of language and I felt all language was far away from me. I was beneath tears."